Sentences with phrase «rural students do»

In addition, many rural students don't see the connection between their high school education and careers.

A study released this month by the American Association of School Administrators on equity for rural schools found that, due to the sheer distance between schools, rural students don't truly have a choice when it comes to enrolling in a school that will meet their needs.

Not exact matches

Most of these agricultural parables that have to do with nature are concentrated in the Gospel of Mark.6 Biblical students generally acknowledge that Mark perhaps is the closest to a rural setting among the four Gospels.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Or do the interests of rural communities and those of their most talented, ambitious students inevitably conflict?

However, given as a list, none appear to have any particular emphasis (i.e., learning theories (# 5) seems as important as parent communication (# 13) and motivation (# 4)-RRB-; they are not tailored to fit the needs of teachers in any specific context (i.e., urban or rural, turnaround or successful); and they do not consider the developmental stage of the student as it relates to each topic.

«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.

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.

To the contrary, rural students consistently do less well in college on a variety of outcomes (readiness for credit - bearing courses, grades, rate of progress, graduation) than urban students from similar income groups.

Rural Vermont is idyllic, but students here don't often meet people from different backgrounds.

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.

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

What can be done to improve rural students» prospects?

What do you think states should do to improve rural education or opportunities for rural students?

Students that have opportunities are leaving rural communities and the students who do not see opportunities are staying, creating a vicious cycle and a lack of global awareness and a lack of people to expand beyond the coStudents that have opportunities are leaving rural communities and the students who do not see opportunities are staying, creating a vicious cycle and a lack of global awareness and a lack of people to expand beyond the costudents who do not see opportunities are staying, creating a vicious cycle and a lack of global awareness and a lack of people to expand beyond the community.

If you're working with a regional or national partner, how does your students» feedback compare to feedback from other students in a comparable group — like state or national benchmarks, or other schools with similar characteristics such as rural or high - poverty schools?

The result was a natural experiment: some low - spending districts, mainly in rural areas, ended up with higher funding per student, whereas other school districts did not.

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

It's a model that Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, has called for, claiming that virtual schools can offer «valuable options» in rural areas, where educators are eager to expand courses, as long as they don't have to push already tight budgets or direct student funding away from schools.

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.

That leaves about 6.5 million students without it, and many of them attend rural schools that don't just lack the money to buy this access but also the local infrastructure that would facilitate it.

Students at Rural School had more faith that their teachers could stop the bullying when they were told about it than did students at the other two Students at Rural School had more faith that their teachers could stop the bullying when they were told about it than did students at the other two students at the other two schools.

However, students at Big City School reported feeling safe much less often than did their peers at the other two schools (65 percent, compared with 83 percent at Small City School and 81 percent at Rural School).

How did leaders in a rural school district in middle Georgia consistently improve math outcomes for traditionally underperforming students?

North Carolina does fund and run a smaller virtual school it runs, the N.C. Virtual School, that specializes in offering individual classes (allowing students in rural areas, for example, to take advanced classes not offered at their schools, or remedial classes allowing other students to catch up where they've fallen behind.)

«I don't know any math,» said Cierra, a high school student in rural McDowell County, West Virginia.

In particular, the study found severe accountability problems with both programs, most notably: they do not serve students in rural areas where there were virtually no private schools or scholarship organizations (SOs) present; they fund primarily religious schools, which are not required to be accredited or adhere to the same standards for curricula as public schools; they do not require the same testing requirements as public schools, making it impossible to gauge student achievement; and they do not require reporting by schools or SOs.

Studies have found rural students whose parents did not attend college are more likely to drop out of school than their peers.

PARSS began in 1983 as a group of public school superintendents who expressed concern that Pennsylvania students in rural and small school districts did not have access to the same quality of education afforded to students attending school in the more metropolitan areas of the state.

Still today, students going to school in many large cities, some smaller ones, and in numerous rural communities do not have access to the kinds of learning environments, high - speed Internet access, and learning platforms that students in wealthier communities take for granted.

Vouchers don't provide an actual choice for students living in rural areas who have few, if any, access points to schools other than their local public schools.

In 1994, a handful of rural school districts sued the state, arguing that they didn't have enough money to give their students a quality education.

Ripley illustrates the life of each student in detail, particularly Kim — a sophomore from rural Oklahoma, despondent at her American classmates whose abilities and desire for education did not match her own.

Even though rural students, on average, reported lower expectations, those that did pursue higher education found higher rates of success.

[21] On the other hand, students in rural and suburban charters «do the same or worse» than students in district schools.

First, it was found that both fourth - and eighth - grade rural and urban students of lower socioeconomic status (SES) had fewer teachers with recent professional development in computers and mathematics education and had less access to home computers than did suburban students.

If you are one of the medical or nursing school graduates drowning in student loan debt, there are lifelines available, especially if you don't mind living in rural communities.

The school is a hotbed of energy action, as I noted in a recent piece here focused on Mick Womersley, an associate professor there whose students go out into rural Maine communities doing energy audits and rehab work.

Reduced demand for traditional legal services (typically billed by the hour) also means there is less demand for articling students and a tendency towards over-supply of lawyers (while paradoxically at the same time, many rural and smaller communities don't have enough lawyers).

Bishop says a lot of students who want to work in rural law firms won't be able to visit them or move there until after they're done school.

Add to that a rural location, which means you don't have to compete with as many other schools and scores of students as you would in a larger metropolitan area, and you find a program that puts you on a unique path to success.

As a medical student I was fortunate enough to do a four - week rotation at the Aboriginal Medical Service in Roebourne, a rural community in north Western Australia and where my family community is based.