Sentences with phrase «rural schools and their communities»

The Rural School and Community Trust's semiannual «Why Rural Matters» report, released Feb. 12, says state leaders should consider the distinctive factors that affect rural schools and adopt and amend policies to help them improve.

This mind - set has prompted advocacy groups like the Rural School and Community Trust to seek both small - district subsidies and protection against loss of enrollment to charters.

Rachel B. Tompkins has been with the Rural School and Community Trust since its founding (as the Annenberg Rural Challenge) in 1995.

Rachel Tompkins is president of the Rural School and Community Trust, a nonprofit educational organization «dedicated to improving student learning and community life by strengthening relationships between rural schools and communities and engaging students in community - based public work.»

The diverse panel included Mil Duncan, founding director, Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire; Francisco Guajardo, cofounder and executive director, Llano Grande Center for Research and Development; Leroy Johnson, executive director, Southern Echo; HGSE Lecturer Donna San Antonio, founder and executive director, Appalachian Mountain Teen Project; and Rachel Tompkins, Ed.D.» 72, president, The Rural School and Community Trust.

The Rural School and Community Trust, which emerged from the Annenberg initiative, defines place - based education as learning grounded in «the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of a particular place.»

Walter Annenberg, a publisher, broadcaster, philanthropist, and former ambassador to the Court of St. James, established the Rural School and Community Trust in 1995 with a $ 50 million pledge.

«In this publication, you can see the difference between rural areas in each state and the rest of state,» said Rachel Tompkins, president of the Rural School and Community Trust.

The non-profit Rural School and Community Trust released an 86 - page report, Why Rural Matters: The Need for Every State to Take Action on Rural Education, describing rural education in each of the 50 states.

«Schools are essential institutions in the community,» says the Rural School and Community Trust's Rachel Tompkins, and online learning doesn't change that.

«Over the past year, when I've been talking with people about the problems in schools, the answer is always «distance learning,»» says Rachel Tompkins, president of the Rural School and Community Trust, which advocates for online learning.

More recently, the Rural School and Community Trust, a national nonprofit organization, asked Bickel and Howley to study School Size, Poverty, and Student Achievement in Montana, Ohio, Georgia, and Texas.

This paper combines data from the literature and other public sources, interviews, site visits, and the organizational experience of The Rural School and Community Trust in an examination of community schools from a rural perspective.

Limited access to advanced coursework, medical care, food and employment opportunities also hurts rural schools, according to a report by AASA, The School Superintendents Association, and The Rural School and Community Trust.

Doris Terry Williams is executive director of the Rural School and Community Trust and director of the Trust's Capacity Building Program.

America's rural principals need solutions, particularly when we consider findings of the most recent national «Why Rural Matters» report published by The Rural School and Community Trust.

The Rural School and Community Trust has assembled an excellent online collection of resources on small schools, with links to relevant research, news articles, and organizations.

I'm encouraged that the strongest sentiments oppose arming teachers and principals and that, given a choice, more respondents prefer mental health services over armed guards,» Doris Terry Williams, executive director of The Rural School and Community Trust, 45th annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.

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Rural schools are also serving an increasing number of low - income and minority students, according to the Rural School and Community Trust.

NEA has called on Congress to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self - Determination Act, (SRS) which provides critical assistance to rural districts whose funding depends largely on federal timber sales, which have declined precipitously in recent years.

Other possible solutions for improving access to courses have been offered by rural school advocates, like Robert Mahaffey, executive director of the Rural School and Community Trust, who proposes expanding courses in rural schools that invest more in their staff, as well as offering teachers more pathways towards credentials and certification

By speaking as one and presenting a clear, unified voice on behalf of rural schools and their communities we have been able to articulate our unique strengths and challenges.

NSBA partnered with the Alliance for Excellent Education; American Federation of Teachers; Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning; Coalition for Community Schools; National Education Association; Opportunity Action; the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign; and the Rural School and Community Trust to release the guide.

Kent McGuire, Southern Education Foundation Marty Blank, National Coalition for Community Schools Marc Morial, National Urban League Warren Simmons, Annenberg Institute for School Reform Jeannie Oakes Ben Jealous John Jackson, The Schott Foundation Doris Williams, Rural School and Community Trust Peter Edelman, Georgetown Center for Poverty & Inequality Nadine Burke Harris, Center for Youth Wellness

Ralph Martire, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability Catherine Brown, Center for American Progress David Sciarra, Education Law Center Tom Saenz, Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund Michael Rebell, Campaign for Educational Equity Doris Williams, Rural School and Community Trust Karen Hawley Miles, Education Resource Strategies Cindy Brown, Center for American Progress

He currently serves as the board chair of the Rural School and Community Trust, a national policy and advocacy organization.

The network received nearly $ 5 million in i3 funds, and the Rural School and Community Trust and the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, located in Quincy, Mass., each contributed an additional $ 500,000.

She is a current board member for the Rural School and Community Trust and a former board member for the National Coalition for Technology in Education and Training (NCTET), the Education and Libraries Network Coalition (EdLiNC), and the Organizations Concerned about Rural Education (OCRE).

The purpose of the Educator of the Year Award is to recognize an employee from a PARSS member district who makes a positive and continuous impact on public education in their rural school and community.

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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.

We've even reached out to local trade schools and are trying to attract people from rural communities.»

As numerous cities make energy choices to tackle climate change, so too should municipalities invest in farm - to - hospital and farm - to - school programs that deliver healthier food and strengthen rural communities while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.

Barry Callebaut recently inaugurated two new rural primary schools and community learning centres in Côte d'Ivoire.

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technoRural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

The Weedon School is an excellent example of a one - room, multi-grade community school commonly found in villages and rural settings during the early days of theSchool is an excellent example of a one - room, multi-grade community school commonly found in villages and rural settings during the early days of theschool commonly found in villages and rural settings during the early days of the West.

The Waldorf School draws from urban, rural, and suburban communities in and around Baltimore.

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger.

Sustainable - food advocates have called for schools to serve more local food, a tactic they say would not only improve flavor but also help support small farms and renew rural communities.

They are the extension of electricity to rural communities in the Saboba District, the construction of a community senior high school at Wapuli in the district, the near completion of a Ghana Commercial Bank in Saboba and the construction of the Yendi - Saboba - Chereponi road.

If we had good road networks and good schools are available around the country and not only in the urban centers, if we had electricity supply in all communities we will not have to be asked indeed insist that our young doctors take up postings in the rural communities.

The Asantehene cited the Otumfuo Charity Foundation, a community development organisation which had an ICT programme, and said that could be a starting point for a possible partnership with Vodafone to roll out training programmes to help school children in rural communities.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

A lot of kids in the school going ages are often out of school moving aimlessly round both rural and urban communities in search of food to eat on a daily basis.

Upper East Regional Director of Food and Agriculture Francis Ennor, said the exercise will provide data on community facilities such as roads, hospitals and schools, among other things for proper policy interventions to propel the development of farmers in the rural areas.

The last administration swapped the allowance system with the students loan scheme and embarked on massive infrastructural development in the education sector with many new secondary schools built to increase enrollment especially, in our rural communities.

Hawkins said that a debate focused on education would show that both Governor Cuomo and Astorino would underfund public schools, especially in property - poor inner city and rural communities.

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Majee, along with Urmeka Jefferson, assistant professor in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, partnered with a county health agency serving a rural community with a population of 21,500 people; a high percentage of the communities» jobs were low - paying manufacturing jobs, and the population possessed poor education.