Sentences with phrase «rural schools do»

In addition, rural schools do experience subject - specific hiring challenges.

Not exact matches

«In just less than a month, there have been thousands of schools that have signed up to do this walkout,» McNaboe, from rural West Virginia, said.

In his recent budget speech, the Finance Minister pointed out that 40 per cent of our villages do not have proper roads, that 1.8 lakh villages do not have primary schools, that 4.5 lakh villages have drinking water and sanitation problems, that there is a shortage of 140 lakh rural dwellings.

Our small school district in rural Nebraska does breakfast before school, and although my girls do not go, I would say that it is a nice blend of students (not just economically disadvantaged kids) and works fairly well.

Opportunities exsist for small rural schools to develop their own Flexi - schooling offer and we are seeing an increasing number of such schools doing so

Small towns and rural areas also generally don't have enough students to support significant choice options or charter schools within the public school system.

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.

I did not stop to consider that the psychological environment and politics of the school itself could be infinitely more important than whether or not it was in a rural location.

«But a fire department or a rural school that applies for a grant doesn't have a professional grants writer.

I grew up in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA and did my undergraduate work in chemistry at Messiah College, a small school (~ 2800 undergraduates only) in Grantham, Pennsylvania, USA.

If they didn't marry their high school sweetheart, it was difficult to meet someone fresh who understood the rural lifestyle.

Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy grow up together at what seems to be an upscale boarding school in rural England, going through the joys and squabbles that any children do, but there are signs that things may not all be as they seem.

According to a G.A.O. report, which was done at the request of Representative William H. Natcher of Kentucky, chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education, two - thirds of rural districts that receive federal drug - free school grants say the money covers more than half of their total drug - education program.

However, the communication tools we do have are pretty incredible and interactive technologies are having a huge impact on the way we deliver education in our rural schools.

The critical - thinking gap between field trip students from rural and high - poverty schools and similar students who didn't go on the trip was significantly larger than the gap between affluent students who went and affluent students who didn't go.

While the national, state, and metro area analysis comprised the bulk of our report, we did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

Growing up in rural Wyoming, Hans Nielsen and his brother didn't think much about school selection.

With support from SASTEMIC, a local nonprofit, the bus launched in 2014, traveling to underserved and rural schools around greater San Antonio that don't have access to STEM and maker resources.

During two years of doing research, Chenoweth identified 15 schools representing a mixture of grade levels and urban, rural, and suburban settings where students were excelling despite poverty and other obstacles — and where kids were not spending endless hours on reading and math drills.

The rural Wisconsin school she attended didn't offer Latin.

Green Hills School is a K — 8 school in rural New Jersey that is doing exceptional things with teaching meta - cognition using a systems - thinking model known asSchool is a K — 8 school in rural New Jersey that is doing exceptional things with teaching meta - cognition using a systems - thinking model known asschool in rural New Jersey that is doing exceptional things with teaching meta - cognition using a systems - thinking model known as DSRP.

Quality education choices for every child What does school choice mean in rural America?

Grier grew up in Fairmont, a rural town that was so small, he laughs, «Our high school football team didn't have enough players to scrimmage.»

«I spoke to leaders of coastal schools, inner - city schools, rural, primary, secondary, alternative provision and asked them what they did.»

We did, in fact, examine the segregation of students in charter and traditional public schools by geography — comparing students in these school sectors within cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

It didn't matter whether the teacher was working in a rural school in the south west or an inner city school in the north east, the national pay scale ensured that every good teacher teaching broadly similar groups of children would receive an equivalent salary.

Anne Davies, a Canadian researcher who was hired by the state to do a qualitative study of the laptop project, spent four months — September, October, November 2002, and May 2003 — at Pembroke Elementary School in rural Washington County, the poorest county in the state, where the nearest supermarket is 25 miles away and the nearest bookstore is 75 miles.

While promising economic growth in rural states, this model doesn't directly address the needs of rural high school students who aren't within driving distance of, or willing to relocate for, good jobs in their state.

While school choice does have a history in rural states — since 1869, Vermont has allowed parents to select a nearby school for their student to attend at the expense of their own town through a «tuitioning» program — few states have encouraged the direct creation of rural, publicly funded schools of choice.

Urban Phenomenon But in too many primary schools there is a tendency to think that cyberbullying does not affect their pupil community, especially in rural areas where some explained to the Cybersurvey that they saw «Cyberbullying as an urban phenomenon».

How does this rural school district afford high - quality Internet access?

Because rural school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for large urban districts usually do not work as well in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.

(p. 5) Tyack & Cuban: «In the firm belief that they were the trustees of the public interest, superintendents and other policy elites of the first half of the century tended to dismiss their opponents as ignorant or self - interested... They regarded the rural foes of school consolidation as backward yokels who did not know what was good for their children.»

Their analysis of 13 federal, state, and local improvement efforts in rural schools suggests that a longstanding «urban bias» in education policymaking has resulted in programs that do not take the variety and special characteristics of rural communities into account — and thus are less effective than they could be.

While rural and urban schools share certain challenges, including the devastating effects of poverty on school children, there are myriad other problems specific to rural schools, which is why applying an urban model and urban solutions to rural schools simply doesn't work.

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

Many rural schools simply don't have teachers who speak the native languages of these new arrivals, not even teachers who speak Spanish.

«Our evidence suggests that, on average, students do worse academically when they attend middle schools than when they attend K — 8 schools — and that this is true in urban, suburban, and rural settings.

In this small, mostly African - American, overwhelmingly poor town in rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't have.

Economically disadvantaged rural and small - town children do a lot better than their city counterparts in learning what they are taught in school, but schooling is not enough.

Similarly, how does taxpayer support of home - schoolers, who form a confederacy around the charter banner but rarely see one another, advance civic cohesion in suburban towns and rural areas?

AltSchool could fuel the growth of independent schools in rural areas where it doesn't plan to compete directly.

In rural Claremont, New Hampshire, a city of 13,000 people, the school board faced the question of what to do with three almost 100 - year - old elementary schools nestled deep inside neighborhoods.

«Often we don't pay much attention to rural education,» the secretary said in his opening remarks, «but those schools represent one - fourth of all schools.

A lot of the interviews were done in rural Queensland in Catholic education schools, where the majority of the teachers have not been in service that long — many of them are new graduates who are in rural communities — I would think that probably the median experience age / years of service for teachers might have been around four years.

And that is exactly what Colbert and her colleagues did in the 1970s when they recognized that rural schools in the country were faltering due to a lack of understanding around the unique challenges that their students faced.

But this hasn't always been the case, and it's certainly not the case in many school districts, where underserved communities of minority, low - income, and rural families don't always have the tools to become involved.

«So when you have so many problems and so many difficulties with these invisible schools, rural schools that were in Colombia and the rest of the Latin American world — these sort of isolated and invisible schools that don't even appear in the statistics — that's where we started.»

It may not be neat or linear, but something is finally being done to improve rural schools» access to affordable high - speed Internet.

Rural schools are valued and caring community institutions, but they don't provide everything their students need.