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FROM A New Frontier: Utilizing Charter Schools to Strengthen Rural Education by Andy Smarick http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED553987.pdf

Policymakers should make policy that promotes quality - focused rural education by expanding broadband access, developing quality control mechanisms, and removing barriers to innovation such as class size and seat - time requirements.

Not exact matches

-- By Shaleena Chanrai, co-founder and art director of Bella Kinesis, a sportswear brand that helps fund business education for women in rural India through customer purchases.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

He is also a Director of Cameco, one of the world's largest uranium producers and Chairman of the charitable organization Educating Girls of Rural China Foundation, which works to transform the lives of women and communities in rural areas of western China by providing access to educaRural China Foundation, which works to transform the lives of women and communities in rural areas of western China by providing access to educarural areas of western China by providing access to education.

Some such experiences and actions can be seen in the successful action to re-conquer the earth by the farmers in Brazil or Madagascar, the initiatives for education and rural training of women in Senegal or in the exemplary battles of the South - Korean workers who demonstrated the possibility of constituting efficient inter-professional trade union organisations in the so - called emerging countries.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

During the course of the last two or three generations the theological curriculum has been «enriched» — like vitamin - impregnated bread — by the addition of a long series of short courses in sociology and social problems, rural and urban sociology, the theory of religious education, educational psychology, methods of religious education, psychology of religion, psychology of personality, psychology of counseling, methods of pastoral counseling, theory of missions, history of missions, methods of evangelism, theory and practice of worship, public speaking, church administration, et cetera, et cetera.

A: Our mission is to help sustain family farms in Marin and Sonoma Counties by providing high quality, minimally processed organic dairy products, and to support family farming and revitalize rural communities everywhere through advocacy and education.

It does this by promoting rural growth through «food sovereignty,» creating sales channels with small producers and strengthening education, nutrition, entrepreneurship and tourism in ethnic localities

In a region hard hit by climate change, the Rainforest Alliance focuses on advancing community forestry, sustainable agriculture, ecotourism, and environmental education to defend vulnerable landscapes and support rural communities.

Almost immediately, the group of parents from the rural towns of Williams and Applegate, in the Applegate Valley of Southern Oregon, was drawn to the homelike, nurturing environment offered by a Waldorf - methods education.

Produced and directed by visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com ®, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «The Smartest Team» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in rural Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.

State education groups previously expressed concerns about reporting by school — particularly for rural and suburban districts where there is very little variety between school buildings so costs can not always be assigned to a particular building.

Pupils across Wales are set to benefit from a new # 2.5 million Welsh Government small and rural schools grant announced today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams.

The cost of living is lower in most rural areas than in most urban areas, although part of that lower cost of living is attributable to subsidies of rural governmental functions, (like road and bridge maintenance and K - 12 education), by residents of more urban areas.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

The Committee, which is chaired by the Minister for Planning, Prof. Gyan Baffuor, has the Ministers for Trade and Industry; Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration; Finance; Food and Agriculture; Attorney General; Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation; Monitoring and Evaluation; Education; Health; Sanitation and Water Resources; Local Government and Rural Development; Gender, Children and Social Protection; Employment and Labour Relations; and Fisheries and Aquaculture as members.

The «Preparation of Communities: Using personal narratives to affect attitudes to disability in Kilifi, Kenya (Pre-Call)» project was set up to promote disability awareness in small communities in a rural part of Kenya, by encouraging a process of reflection and education.

Slated for the ax are the Center for Materials Research and Education, which seeks to improve preservation and curation techniques for museum artifacts, and the Conservation and Research Center (CRC), a 1290 - hectare rural breeding and study facility for threatened or endangered species, operated by the zoo.

By that, I mean, everything that has shaped you; your education, gender, upbringing, whether you live in a rural area or urban, the color of your skin, your family relationship, if you have allergies, if you work with physical or health considerations, whether you have been sexually assaulted... and on and on

Rural schools need greater attention from policymakers and the public, a report released last week by a leading rural education group Rural schools need greater attention from policymakers and the public, a report released last week by a leading rural education group rural education group says.

Students in rural areas have to travel farther to reach school than their urban counterparts — a commute of several hours by boat is considered normal — and many of their parents may not have the education level necessary to help with high school homework.

The five - year grant, awarded Sept. 10 by the federal agency's Institute of Education Sciences, establishes the National Research Center on Rural Education Support, based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Each district's foundation level is adjusted by such factors as the «teacher - training and - experience index,» by the number of special education students, and for small rural schools and districts.

Driven by news of shortages in certain subjects (such as math, science, and special education) and in rural and inner - city schools, state legislatures have earmarked billions of dollars for salary increases and teacher training.

Watson - Blagden says the concept of place - based education has taken root over the past ten to twenty years, fueled, in part, by Annenberg Rural Challenge grants, launched in 1995 to improve rural schools by linking them more with their communiRural Challenge grants, launched in 1995 to improve rural schools by linking them more with their communirural schools by linking them more with their communities.

Abstract: This paper attempts to study the methods adopted by Parijat Academy to empower the rural children through education as well as to know about the challenges faced during the process of implementing education.

A leader and active member in many student groups while at the Ed School, including FIERCE (Future Indigenous Educators Resisting Colonial Education) and the HGSE Rural Educators Alliance, Barraza, as noted by a peer who nominated her for the Intellectual Contribution Award, «never shied away from difficult conversations with peers and professors and she modeled what it means to stand up for what one believes in.»

The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy — supported by the Government of the People's Republic of China and dedicated to literacy work benefitting rural populations and out - of - school youth, particularly girls and women — is awarded to laureates in South Africa, India, and Senegal: The South African Department of Basic Education for its Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign; the Jan Shikshan Sansthan organization in Kerala, India, for its programme, Vocational Skill Development for Sustainable Development, and the Directorate of Literacy and National Languages in Senegal for its National Education Programme for Illiterate Youth and Adults through ICTs.

Strategies to increase leadership opportunities and provide mentoring in this area included the New South Wales education department's Rural School Leadership Program targeting early career ATSI teachers and Principals Australia Institute's Dare to Lead program, supported by the Australian Council for Educational Research.

An article by Dan Fishman in the Summer 2015 issue of Education Next looks at some innovative strategies for bringing school reform to rural America.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

The 2016 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al - Khalifa Prize recognizing two outstanding projects that make innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education for the benefit of disadvantaged groups will be awarded on 21 February to the Online School Project, operated by Jaago Foundation in rural Bangladesh, and to Harnessing the Power of ICTs in Higher Education, run by the German NGO Kiron that serves displacededucation for the benefit of disadvantaged groups will be awarded on 21 February to the Online School Project, operated by Jaago Foundation in rural Bangladesh, and to Harnessing the Power of ICTs in Higher Education, run by the German NGO Kiron that serves displacedEducation, run by the German NGO Kiron that serves displaced persons.

The essays appear in «Uncovering the Productivity Promise of Rural Education,» which is part of The State Education Agency of the Future edited by Betheny Gross and Ashley Jochim.

Conducted by the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education at Australian Catholic University (ACU), the survey included 2,621 principals and 1,024 assistant principals from primary and secondary schools across urban, suburban, large towns, rural and remote locations from around the country.

The 2016 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al - Khalifa Prize recognizing two outstanding projects that make innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education for the benefit of disadvantaged groups will be awarded on 21 February to the Online School Project, operated by Jaago Foundation in rural Bangladesh, and to Harnessing the Power of -LSB-...]

The Forum declared that Education for All must take account of the needs of the poor and the disadvantaged, including working children, remote rural dwellers and nomads, ethnic and linguistic minorities, children, young people and adults affected by HIV and AIDS, hunger and poor health, and those with disabilities or special needs.

Grow - your - own programs could be delivered in rural areas using distance - learning options provided by higher education institutions and district - provided coaching and mentoring — giving prospective teachers greater access to high - quality training while remaining in their local community.

In a report released by Bellwether Education Partners, Andy Smarick examines the state policies that can hinder or foster the growth of rural charter schools and argues for a new approach to charter schooling in rural America — one that's prudent and respectful of the unique characteristics of rural communities but more open to charter growth than in the past.

And online courses have the potential to liberate the quality of education from a student's zip code by, for example, allowing rural and low - income urban students access to AP classes now clustered in suburban schools.

And Bellwether Education Partners has released a new report by Andy Smarick on state policies that affect rural charter schools.

A comparison of indigenous student achievement in indigenous and rural schools, which recently earned the prestigious Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Dissertation in 2007 by the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).

Several education leaders I talked to were struck by the wave of white working - class voters, including many rural and rust - belt Americans without college degrees, supporting Trump.

Although TFA is by no means the entire solution to the problems facing public education, or even our teacher shortage, TFA is helping to redefine the educational and economic opportunities available in rural and urban communities.

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These include the development of a clear vision and plan of action when transitioning to a personalized learning model by district leaders, the need for rural leaders to collaborate with other Future Ready Schools, and provision of funds by state governments and departments of education to support the implementation.

Educational barriers and challenges often vary by region, yet at districts where odds seem disproportionately stacked against student success — such as Jefferson County Schools (JCS) in rural West Virginia — school leaders know that delivering excellence in education requires vision, strategy and, sometimes, complete process overhaul.

In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education gave approval for the state to seek waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations for an RFP for statewide assessments for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School District to move to a four - day week for school.