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Teachers Discuss the Troubles of Teaching in Rural America
The White House recently received the latest class of National Board Certified teachers, and asked those who were from some of America’s most remote and distant rural communities about the realities...
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Report: Charter Schools Have Lasting Impact in Rural America
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has released its latest Issue Brief – Beyond City Limits: Expanding Public Charter Schools in Rural America – in an attempt to highlight the studied...
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Labor Dept Seeks to Outlaw Children Working on Family Farm
An unpopular proposal from the Obama administration to outlaw children from doing farm chores is being finalized by the Department of Labor. The rule, which would apply child-labor laws to children...
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Dept of Labor Backs Down on Family Farm Child Labor Rule
The Labor Department has backed down over a proposed rule that would have applied child labor laws to youths working on family farms. They have cited public outcry for the policy reversal. “The...
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Rural Colorado Community Works to Stay Ahead of Tech Curve
Yoder, Colorado, a small community in the middle of the desert, has some of the lowest rates of technology ownership in the country. But you can’t tell that if you look in the classrooms of the local...
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Inexperienced Teachers More Common in Low Income Schools
A report released by the Carsey Institute finds that low-income and racially diverse communities are more likely to have inexperienced teachers in their classrooms than schools in wealthier and whiter...
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NCLB Unfair to Rural Districts, Democrat Senators Say to Colleagues
Demands by Democratic senators representing rural school districts to change the upcoming No Child Left Behind rewrite to make it easier for them to win federal funding is unlikely to be well met by...
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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...
View ArticleOECD Shows Rural Schools Outperforming Urban Districts in UK
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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