Sentences with phrase «rural student populations»

Australia has significant urban and rural student populations and struggles with balancing state and federal authority.

In contrast to nationwide declining rural student populations, Idaho's rural charter school enrollment is growing — increasing 19 percent between the 2013 - 14 to 2014 - 15 school years.

Moreover, the demographic characteristics of the rural student population continue to shift, with rural schools becoming increasingly diverse and serving larger populations of students that schools have historically not served effectively (i.e., the students for whom performance is described in terms of achievement gaps).

Not exact matches

A research team investigating the mental health burden and treatment - seeking behaviors of student veterans attending rural community colleges in the southern United States has found that this population has difficulty integrating into the campus community and needs support to help it succeed.

We have these school divisions and the urban areas have [high populations] and obviously big school divisions, but the rural divisions have struggled to maintain a variety of course offerings to high school students in their really small schools.

Dubbed «charter school deserts,» these areas are predominantly located in urban and rural settings and represent populations of students in most need of alternative school options.

student recently launched a nonprofit, This Land Speaks, to restore the voices in what she considers America's most voiceless population — rural communities.

Figure 2 shows that the achievement of rural students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) gets worse the farther from a population center they live.

Like the MAT@USC, WGU targets nonconsumers, as 70 percent of its students come from traditionally underserved populations, including individuals from rural communities.

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.

State ID (9 sub-codes) District site ID (18 sub-codes) District size (large, medium, low) District poverty (high, medium, low) District diversity (high, medium, low) District location (urban, suburban, rural) School site ID School level (elementary, middle school, high school) School poverty (high, medium, low) School diversity (high, medium, low) School size (student population) Interviewee role district (superintendent, board member, staff, parent representative, community stakeholder) Interviewee role school (principal or assistant principal, teacher, teacher leader, other staff, parent representative) Interviewee gender Interviewee role experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Interviewee site experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Site visit date (site visit 1, 2, or 3) Document type (district, school, research memo).

Additional considerations included geographic region of the country, urban versus rural populations, school size, range of grade levels in school, and presence of limited - English - speaking and bilingual students.

In the session we heard from representatives of various community colleges, universities, and school districts that have been working collaboratively and strategically to leverage resources to address the state's educator workforce needs, particularly for rural communities and districts with diverse K — 12 student populations.

ASCD believes that to close the achievement gap, all underserved populations — high - poverty students, students with special learning needs, students of different cultural backgrounds, nonnative speakers, and urban and rural students — must have access to

Given the growth of national charter school networks, such as the Challenge Foundation — a national group that funds a pair of schools, accounting for nearly 11 percent of the student population, in rural Rutherford County — proponents say it's essential to maintain some local control over charters.

Meanwhile, in a state with the 6th highest population of rural students in the country, declining enrollments and less funding plague Indiana's rural school districts.

Some schools in the rural and suburban parts of the diocese don't expect to have large enough low - income student populations to make it into the top 25, Lancaster said.

Her range of experience has included both rural and urban settings working with at risk student populations in Texas and Louisiana.

According to «Out of the Loop,» a recent report by the National School Boards Association, «Poverty, isolation, and inequities are exacerbated for rural students by the lack of attention to the unique needs of this considerable population.»

ASCD believes that all underserved populations — high - poverty students, students with special learning needs, students of different cultural backgrounds, nonnative speakers, and urban and rural students — must have access to

In Lee County Schools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percent black.

Situated in a rural area, the University serves a population of approximately 18,000 students in a community of 7,000.

Patton Springs School in Afton, Texas serves a highly mobile, low - income population of students in grades K - 12 in a very rural setting.

«Out of the Loop,» a new report from the National School Boards Association's (NSBA), Center for Public Education (CPE), finds that poverty, isolation and inequities are exacerbated for rural students by the lack of attention to the unique needs of this considerable student population.

Many districts — especially urban, inner suburban and rural, serving very high - need student populations — continue to struggle from a lack of sufficient funding, which makes it impossible to provide all students with the opportunity for a high quality education.

Under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer Dr. Kevin M. Maxwell, the school system serves a diverse student population from urban, suburban and rural communities located in the Washington, DC suburbs.

Simpson Central School, Pinola, MS.. This rural school of about 500 students is a Title 1 school serving 20 small surrounding communities, with over 75 % eligibility for free or reduced lunch, and a student population of 52 % Caucasian and 48 % African American.

They include a variety of school and district types — urban, suburban, rural; traditional public and charter — across all grade levels and student populations: