Educators in California's
rural schools face challenges that are different but just as daunting as those of their urban counterparts.
For example,
rural schools face uneven broadband access and infrastructure to support technology - based instructional tools as well as capacity challenges with small staffs in adopting what may be a radically different instructional orientation.
Hargreaves says that while
rural schools face common challenges related to distance, size, and access, there are differences among schools and communities that create their own distinct strengths and needs.
Rural schools face a growing number of challenges and opportunities unique to their circumstances.
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Rural schools face many of the same challenges as their urban counterparts — high poverty and inadequate resources among them,» said Patte Barth, Director of the Center for Public Education.
Rural schools face significant challenges in transporting children between their homes and their schools.
This 2014 white paper jointly produced by AASA: the School Superintendents Association and BBA as a companion to the documentary Rich Hill illustrates the unique challenges many
rural schools face in meeting their students» needs.
* New Report Highlights the State of Rural Schools A national report demonstrates the need to pay more attention to the special problems
rural schools face.
The unique problems
rural schools face go largely unnoticed in the national debate over the direction of the education, however.
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Rural schools face unique issues and I want to ensure that pupils that attend them have the same opportunities as children in other areas.
Rev Nigel Genders, the Church of England's chief education officer, said: «In the current education landscape small
rural schools face some tough challenges which are not simple to resolve and are often expressed in negative terms.
Not exact matches
With the distance between
schools and small classroom size, we
face many of the same challenges that affect
rural schools all over the world when it comes to the provision and breadth of curricular choices.
But as long as states and / or the federal government increase demands on teachers while canceling some of these very programs, the problem
rural and remote
schools face in attracting and retaining quality teachers is just not likely to fade.
Even with parental determination to be involved while their children are in
school, «I think the primary challenge
rural kids
face is a lack of preparation for
school,» Rearick told Education World.
«It is clear that
rural and frontier
schools face unique circumstances compared to their urban - centered peers,» the senators...
Healthy and Hunger Free Now 65 years later, Truman's act provides daily lunch in 101,000
schools nationwide in urban,
rural, and suburban areas, and the program still
faces opposition.
Included: Tompkins talks about the challenges
facing rural school systems.
Teaching English for the three years on the Laguna Pueblo reservation and in Aztec, New Mexico, she became distinctly aware of the unique problems
faced by
rural schools and enrolled in the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program's Instructional Leadership Strand seeking ways she could be of greater help to her students.
Today, Bellwether released a new report on the promise of charter
schooling in
rural America — and the very real challenges
facing it.
* Some state charter laws have provisions that make starting a
rural charter impossible or close to it * Rural charters get substantially less funding than district - run schools and face high costs related to transportation and buil
rural charter impossible or close to it *
Rural charters get substantially less funding than district - run schools and face high costs related to transportation and buil
Rural charters get substantially less funding than district - run
schools and
face high costs related to transportation and buildings
Schools face unique challenges in their effort to provide a first class education to students and communities in remote regions of
rural America.
Rural Students Produce High - Tech Projects In the rural Mendocino (California) Unified School District, a locally developed computer network eliminates one of the greatest challenges facing many small, rural, budget - tight distr
Rural Students Produce High - Tech Projects In the
rural Mendocino (California) Unified School District, a locally developed computer network eliminates one of the greatest challenges facing many small, rural, budget - tight distr
rural Mendocino (California) Unified
School District, a locally developed computer network eliminates one of the greatest challenges
facing many small,
rural, budget - tight distr
rural, budget - tight districts.
Another dramatic problem
facing rural education is the issue of consolidation of
schools.
«We are taking action and providing new funding to help small and
rural schools deal with the unique challenges they
face, such as small pupil numbers and issues in recruiting head teachers and staff.
As a
rural school in Murphy, North Carolina — in Southern Appalachia — we have become acutely aware of the challenges
facing our student population: They live in a historically isolated community with little access to cutting - edge, well - paid jobs.
School vouchers, for example, are unlikely to solve the problems
facing students in the vast swaths of
rural America where voters went heavily for Donald Trump.
When
faced with soaring transportation costs and students on buses for as long as four hours each day, some
rural school districts pared the fifth day of instruction into fourths and tacked this time onto the end of the remaining four weekdays, creating a four - day
school week.
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.
spThanks to a multiyear initiative to use technology to help surmount the challenges often
faced by the state's small,
rural schools, Advanced Placement courses were offered for the first time this spring — via the Internet — in 26 districts
The result, experts say, is that many
rural districts still
face a steep climb to meet long - term federal goals for
school connectivity, even though most currently provide students with the minimum recommended bandwidth.
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.
Simply put, the problems confronting urban
school districts are bigger, costlier, more numerous, and tougher to overcome than those
facing most
rural and suburban systems.
They explore complex contemporary issues and problems
facing education and society — including issues of community - focused leadership development for high - poverty
rural schools, college access and student success, sexual violence, cross cultural counseling, community college leadership, and state and institutional policies that affect children and adult learning — with a view toward solutions that will make a real, positive difference for students, teachers, counselors, administrators, policy makers, and communities.
Too often charter
schools in
rural America
face challenges that states could help them avoid.
On the other hand, research indicates that
rural students who live a long way from their
school face significant time and transportation barriers to extracurricular participation.
What began as a pulse - check of
rural schools» use of technology to address the obstacles
facing their communities evolved into a deep look at what is working to increase college and career readiness and economic opportunity in historically underserved districts.
Rural communities and
schools face particular challenges that can not always be addressed by the same policies and practices as other places.
Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools
Schools in poor
rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they
face.135 Charter
schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools
schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public
schoolsschools do.136
The journal featured the partnership in two blog posts, one by REL Northwest researchers Havala Hanson and Jennifer Esswein, who describe the urgent conditions that led to the research - practice partnership's formation, and another by Homedale
School District Superintendent Rob Sauer, who writes about the challenges
facing Idaho's
rural districts and how data and evidence are needed to create a common language for collaborators as they look for solutions.
U.S. Senator Jon Tester, member and former Vice Chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, proposes legislation that directly addresses the challenges
faced by
schools in
rural and Indian communities.
This strategy makes relevant
face - to -
face learning opportunities available within a reasonable distance to
school leaders in remote
rural areas.
Actions 15/16 of the
School Food Plan looks at providing solutions and support for the specific challenges
faced by meals services in small and
rural schools.
And like most public
schools in
rural areas, these private
schools would
face significant challenges recruiting and retaining qualified teachers, providing differentiated and challenging content, providing support for students with special needs, and more.
Underscoring this point is the fact that Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (AK), Susan Collins (ME), and Mike Enzi (WY) all used their limited time for questions during DeVos» confirmation hearing to speak about the special challenges
facing rural and frontier
schools in their states.
Caitlin Scott writes on a new REL Northwest study that uncovers challenges
faced by
rural schools with
School Improvement Grants and shows the promise of technical assistance when it comes to implementing evidence - based strategies.
School officials said it was difficult to compare poor students in Cincinnati with their counterparts across Ohio, noting that students in
rural areas
faced different challenges.
According to the Education Commission of the States, urban,
rural, high - poverty, high - minority, and low - achieving
schools face the most persistent staffing challenges.
Caitlin Scott writes about the difficulties
rural schools might
face when replacing principals and a concept she finds promising for engaging
rural students.
The challenges
facing rural schools are staggering — concentrated poverty, inadequate access to health care services, early childhood education and after -
school programs, ballooning class size, high transportation costs, teacher shortages, and lack of broadband access.
And the private
school would probably be vexed by some of the same challenges
facing rural schools, including teacher recruitment and retention.