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1 in 5 students in the US are living in rural areas.
Rural school leaders are most concerned about recruiting and retaining teachers.
Teachers need help to talk to learners about sexual health topics.
Floods, hurricanes, fires and pandemics are hard for any school district to deal with. But in rural districts the struggle to recover is even harder.
Making physics more engaging means meeting students where they are, highlighting the ways in which it plays a role in their communities.
Rural school leaders must develop resilience in their pursuit for learners’ success.
New research shows how collaboration between teachers is linked to greater job satisfaction.
The Australian approach to lifting standards of schooling has a crucial blind spot: the role of the people and communities outside school in supporting students.
A study of rural schools in Pennsylvania found that schools ended up in a clash between local residents and state and federal agencies.
While many students who grew up in rural communities leave for good after going off to college, some are returning to their rural roots. A scholar who studies education and small towns explains why.
Research shows that grit is a strong predictor of reading achievement. This suggests that socio-emotional skills are important for student achievement, even in high-poverty contexts.
Touring a college in person may be out of the question for a while due to COVID-19. Can virtual reality tours fill the void?
Uganda’s English language policy is at odds with the situation on the ground in the country’s rural schools.
A new study suggests LGB teachers in rural schools far likelier to have depression or anxiety than those in towns or cities.
There is no need for all students to sit the same test, that asks the same questions, on the same day. We are smarter than that.
Urban and rural science teachers often lack funding for science lab materials and pay out of pocket to provide those materials for their students, new research detailed in this Speed Read shows.
If we fail to recognise that standardised tests are metro-centric, we will continue to produce disadvantage for rural students.
Nationwide, 16 percent of charter schools are rural. Yet, somehow these key players are often overlooked.
Redesigning staffing policies will attract and retain high-quality teachers in the schools that need them most.
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Professor (Curriculum Inquiry / Rural Education), University of Canberra
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Graduate Research Assistant, North Carolina State University
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Professor of Educational Administration, Michigan State University
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Senior Lecturer, Education Policy and Leadership, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Penn State
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Professor of Education, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Community College Leadership, Mississippi State University
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Professor of Educational Administration, Penn State
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Professor of Physics & Science Education, Michigan State University
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Lecturer, Department of African Languages, Makerere University
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Associate Professor in Education, UNSW
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PhD Candidate in Educational Psychology, UNSW
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Professor, School of Education, Flinders University
