Sentences with phrase «say rural education»

Tieken, Marietta, and Marcell say rural education is still a small subset of the education world although they feel supported in their work at Harvard.

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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.

The Bishop of Oxford, John Pritchard, who is chair of the CofE's Board of Education, said: «Rural schools, like our country churches, are the vital heartbeat of the countryside.

Hubbard said Cuomo also expressed an openness to addressing over the next two years of his four - year term the «paucity» of the welfare grant, education and job training for prisoners and low - income New Yorkers, and access to transportation for rural communities.

He said the team would visit 10 schools in the urban and rural areas of the state to inspect the impact of the free school feeding programme of the state as well as other education intervention.

Fape said no political party in the current dispensation had matched Awolowo's legacies of free education, free health, gainful employment and integrated rural development.

Eluned Parrott AM, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Minister, said: «Welsh Liberal Democrats fought for this discount because we know just how hard it is for young people to access work, education or training — particularly in the most rural areas of Wales.

De Blasio said there's a «tremendous feeling for public education» in the United States, including in rural districts and red states, and opposition to any ideas or proposals that might undercut resources for public schools.

State education policy, he said, has resulted in fiscal instability for small, rural schools, including the Gap Elimination Adjustment and the tax cap.

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.

Fayemi said the four cardinal programmes: free education, free healthcare for children, pregnant, old and disabled; job creation and rural development, had been adopted as the APC's manifestoes.

China's economy was growing rapidly, but «children from rural areas with poor educations or in bad health didn't have the capabilities» to take advantage of new economic opportunities, says Luo Renfu, a longtime Rozelle collaborator and economist at Peking University in Beijing.

Michael Kennedy, associate dean for rural health education at the University of Kansas Medical Center said at the NRHA conference.

Proceeds from the sales would come back to the villagers and help fund rural development and education efforts — in hopes, says Dransfield, that the Malagasy people might finally reap some benefit from preserving the environmental resources that remain.

My wife Mary called mother — Dad had died eight years earlier; Mother is a farm girl, never had formal education beyond 12th grade in rural Minnesota — and she thought for a moment and said, «Mary, tell Peter that's very nice but don't let this go to his head».

«The highest incidence among prediabetes and diabetes occurs in those individuals with lower income, less education and to a large degree who live in rural areas,» he said.

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.

Rural schools need greater attention from policymakers and the public, a report released last week by a leading rural education group Rural schools need greater attention from policymakers and the public, a report released last week by a leading rural education group rural education group says.

South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Thomas W. Cooper Jr. ruled Dec. 29 in favor of eight small, rural districts, saying the state fails to provide the youngest children in those areas «the opportunity to obtain a minimally adequate education.»

In a rural state like North Dakota, where schools are often 25 miles or more from a family's home, said the lawyer, Duane Houdek, access to a school bus «is very much access to education, especially when a family has no money» to pay transportation fees.

In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

Access and Credit Recovery are Main Drivers for Districts: Districts with distance education enrollments say that providing courses not otherwise available (64 % of all districts, 73 % of rural) and credit recovery (57 % of all districts, 81 % of large) are very important reasons for offering these opportunities.

At the Awards ceremony, Ashden's Founder Director Sarah Butler - Sloss said: «We are delighted to see such a broad range of school winners — from a small rural primary school with just 97 pupils to a large further education college with over 14,000 students.

The Education Department's 1994 budget proposes to spend $ 15 million in discretionary funds under the Secretary's Fund for Innovation on an «urban - rural initiative,» which Administration officials said last week would be spent on the «enterprise schools.»

Watson - Blagden says the concept of place - based education has taken root over the past ten to twenty years, fueled, in part, by Annenberg Rural Challenge grants, launched in 1995 to improve rural schools by linking them more with their communiRural Challenge grants, launched in 1995 to improve rural schools by linking them more with their communirural schools by linking them more with their communities.

Many Alaska Natives — often living in remote rural areas — have struggled with access to education, she says.

Still, Tieken says, «I think the rural education research community is pretty small nationwide.

While some of these programs can be said to be effective in raising awareness on global education, however records shows that most of these programs focus more on literate youths in urban rich communities, leaving many illiterate youths especially in rural and urban slums with little or no access to such programs.

«Rural education is so context - dependent,» says Tieken, who is researching schools in Arkansas and Mississippi, and has also taught in rural areas of Vermont and TenneRural education is so context - dependent,» says Tieken, who is researching schools in Arkansas and Mississippi, and has also taught in rural areas of Vermont and Tennerural areas of Vermont and Tennessee.

«This review will look at education from school entry to job success and how we can improve results for rural and regional people,» he said.

«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.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan made the announcement in a speech at the Policy Exchange, saying that rural schools and coastal schools will be the focus on the new plans, which will see teachers offered higher salaries, future leadership roles and relocation costs as incentives.

«I come from a rural background and an immigrant family, and I know the barriers that exist when pursuing higher education and work experiences,» she says.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

That said, there is considerable evidence of staffing difficulties in specific subjects (e.g., STEM and special education) and in specific types of schools (e.g., rural schools or schools serving disadvantaged students), which suggests that policies aimed at addressing these true shortage areas must be targeted to these specific teachers and schools.

This requirement may pose a burden to rural areas that already find it hard to attract special - education teachers, she said.

As the 109th Congress begins this week, the Senate education committee is expected to get a new chairman — Sen. Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming — who observers say will bring to the job a blend of pragmatic conservatism and a keen appreciation for the challenges of rural communities.

«We believe that HGSE, as one of the world's leading academic institutions, has the responsibility to change the conversation in order to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success in rural communities,» she says, stressing that rural education needs to be part of the dialogue around providing quality education to all.

«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.

«Every student deserves the opportunity to receive an education that prepares them for future success, whether they live in an urban, suburban, or rural community,» said Gentzel.

«Our organizations are dedicated to closing the financing gap so that educators can close the achievement the gap, and we'll now be able to serve a previously underserved segment of the education reform movement — rural charter schools,» said BH's Mark Medema.

The unconventional flurry of both in - person and virtual academics in a school that had never before offered AP physics is part of a broader experiment that experts say could herald the future of education, especially for rural schools.

During an education committee hearing on the bill, Mike Motheral, executive director of the Texas Small Rural School Finance Coalition, said 14 of the districts he represents could lose up as much as 53 percent of their state revenue with the end of the state aid program.

«In future years, these barriers will be further exacerbated by declining enrollment in rural districts and the overall decrease in the number of college students entering teacher education programs,» the request said.

Rev Genders said the report is designed to «help schools and dioceses think about the quality of education offered in small and rural schools and embrace change in a way which leads to high quality education».

«The goal of Grow Your Own is to help increase the quality and diversity of our teaching force, especially in small and rural school districts,» education commissioner Mike Morath said in a statement.

Carrabec High School setting example for rural schools, says federal official (February 1, 2012) The Bangor Daily news covered Jo Anderson's visit to Carrabec High School, where the work of the Maine Education Association and NEA Priority Schools campaign is credited.

But to have three come together, that's not the norm at all,» says John Hill, president of the National Rural Education Association, a membership organization of rural districts and state agenRural Education Association, a membership organization of rural districts and state agenrural districts and state agencies.

«Students in Utah's rural communities deserve the same educational opportunities as students in urban areas,» Conine said, «USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program, with local educational institutions, helps bridge the gap that distance creates, ensuring rural students achieve their goals of higher education.»

She said the school finance system is broken, and needs to be fixed to support not only rural schools like in the San Luis Valley and Moffat County, but to allow every child in Colorado the same rights to education.