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Number of Rural Schoolhouses is on the Decline in America
Anyone who read Anne of Green Gables, the Little House on the Prairie series or even Tom Sawyer is familiar with the country school house where kids of many ages come together to be taught by one...
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West Virginia Rural School Plan Offers Hope for Change
Rural schools in West Virginia are attempting to resolve a growing number of challenges, including not being able to recruit enough teachers to staff as many as 1 in 7 of its classrooms, Yahoo News...
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Village schools in the UK have something to show their counterparts in urban areas: better academic outcomes. Britain is one of only five countries where students from districts with low student...
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New Schools Offer Hope to Children of China’s Migrant Class
In China, a system of government registration as well as residency permit requirements keep most people tied down to the location of their birth, be it an urban setting or the rural one. But with the...
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EdSec Duncan Urges Rural Schools to Commit to, Adopt New Technology
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that there is need to provide more educational facilities in America’s rural schools, which will produce the next generation of leaders from slowly-shrinking...
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Education Outcomes Vary Widely From Urban To Rural China
Education outcomes vary widely across China with less than 5% of China’s rural poor attending university compared to 84% of high school grads in Shanghai. For the second time in a decade, 15 year-olds...
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Bilingual Farming Town Boasts Uncommon Education Results
Barely bilingual, most Hispanic students fell through the cracks in the Sanger Unified School District. Most of them were forced to drop out or pushed into trades as they lacked basic math and English...
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South Carolina Lawmakers Request Court to Reconsider Education Ruling
In South Carolina, the Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Nikki Haley have requested that the state’s Supreme Court reconsider an order from last fall to fix the state’s struggling education...
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School Internet Access Increases, Rural Schools Lagging
According to an annual report released by EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit whose goal is to increase Internet access to public schools across the country, the number of students who have access to...
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NASBE Report: Rural Schools Need Flexibility, Tech Help
(Photo: Wikimedia, Creative Commons) The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) has published a report on its website that examines the challenges of rural education. Titled...
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