Rural schools
Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning
Schools across the state are ditching A through F report cards and letting students retake tests to emphasize learning over seat time, but each district’s interpretation of proficiency-based learning looks different, and a high profile fiasco in Maine looms large
Inside Maine’s disastrous rollout of proficiency-based learning
How well-intentioned education and business leaders, backed by wealthy foundations and a success story from faraway Alaska, sold state lawmakers on a largely untested theory of change
A big reason rural students never go to college: Colleges don’t recruit them
College recruiters who flock to suburban high schools seldom visit rural ones
How grassroots efforts are trying to solve the teacher shortage crisis
One teacher at a time, nonprofit groups try to address the lack of teachers in the Mississippi Delta. After years of inaction, the state finally steps in to help them
Teacher shortages force districts to use online education programs
When the computers are in charge, students complain ‘ain’t nobody really teaching’
After years of inaction, Delta teacher shortage reaches ‘crisis’ levels
Districts scrambling for staff put uncertified teachers in classrooms
Rural colleges aren’t supplying the workers rural businesses and agriculture need
Both sides concede they don’t often talk to each other, resulting in a widening skills gap
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As jobs grow hard to fill, businesses join the drive to push rural residents toward college
Companies need more people with degrees but struggle to find them
Farm-related projects bring classroom lessons to life
The Milton Hershey School embeds agriculture and environmental education into all classes
Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers
A struggling West Virginia district sends teachers to students’ homes to help them get to college