rural schools Archives

How Palo Verde USD and Bluum Transformed Learning in California’s Desert

In California’s eastern desert, a strategic partnership is demonstrating how rural schools can leverage educational technology to overcome geographic ... Read more

Student Well-Being

New research paints an alarming picture of crises facing rural students

Rural schools and students often seem invisible because many policymakers lack personal experience as rural students.

Many rural communities are still facing multiple crises in educational loss, economic outcomes, unemployment, and mental health in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Why Rural…

Newsline

Action for Healthy Kids to Implement Healthy Meals Incentives Initiative

CHICAGO — Action for Healthy Kids has signed a cooperative agreement with the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to ... Read more

STEM & STEAM

Computer science claims slight victory in high schools

Computer science education is on the rise in high schools, but access barriers remain for traditionally underserved student populations

For the first time, a slim majority of all U.S. high schools--51 percent--offer foundational computer science, up from 35 percent in 2018.

Digital Equity

Spotty internet access for rural students limits achievement

A wi-fi sign on a country road illustrates the idea that internet access for rural students is challenging.

Technology and internet access for rural students in some parts of the U.S. is unreliable at best, and this limited access could adversely affect their learning. Rural students…

District Management

Two rural schools that are beating the odds

Rural schools haven't always had it easy. Lack of funding, geographical isolation, and technology challenges often prove nearly impossible to overcome. But because technology is absolutely essential in…

District Management

Barriers to girls’ education abound in rural schools

Today we visited the San Miguel School. It is an example of community dedication, responsibility and exemplifies a commitment to education that impressed me, Takepart.com reports.

District Management

Rural schools still facing ed-tech challenges

Educational technology stakeholders tout the benefits of mobile devices, broadband internet, and technology in the classroom—but in some rural schools, even the most basic ed-tech access is still…

Curriculum

High-tech school bus extends learning

The Pope County, Ark., district is participating in a new program for rural schools believed to be the first of its kind: It's is playing math and science…

District Management

Feds to create an Online Learning Registry

In a move to help rural schools keep pace with more developed districts, the U.S. Department of Education said it will create an Online Learning Registry that will…