Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Blogging about Rural Education
I was alerted to this first blog entry about rural education by the Online Learning Update.
More rural folks need varsity studies: Yee - Malaysia Daily Express By Ray Schroeder
The Resource Development and Information Technology Ministry wants universities to be brought to rural folk, to provide an opportunity for more of them to pursue higher education, via e-learning. Its Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai said there were still ccommunities in the rural areas of the State not able to enjoy education at university-level. "Therefore, we need to get more people from the rural areas to enrol into a university via e-learning mode," he said, while commending the initiatives pioneered by Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) for this purpose.
And another one, not quite rural education, but about small schools...
Is small beautiful? by Joanne Jacobs
New York City's newly created small schools face tough challenges, reports the New York Times. Nearly 70 percent of the students started the year performing below grade level, often far below, in math and reading. The small schools - with themes like the law, performing arts, technology, and architecture - also strained to carve out identities in the face of large numbers of ambivalent students. More than half of pupils in the small schools had applied elsewhere and were rejected, or had applied nowhere and were simply assigned to a small school.
Tags: aera, rural, education
More rural folks need varsity studies: Yee - Malaysia Daily Express By Ray Schroeder
The Resource Development and Information Technology Ministry wants universities to be brought to rural folk, to provide an opportunity for more of them to pursue higher education, via e-learning. Its Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai said there were still ccommunities in the rural areas of the State not able to enjoy education at university-level. "Therefore, we need to get more people from the rural areas to enrol into a university via e-learning mode," he said, while commending the initiatives pioneered by Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) for this purpose.
And another one, not quite rural education, but about small schools...
Is small beautiful? by Joanne Jacobs
New York City's newly created small schools face tough challenges, reports the New York Times. Nearly 70 percent of the students started the year performing below grade level, often far below, in math and reading. The small schools - with themes like the law, performing arts, technology, and architecture - also strained to carve out identities in the face of large numbers of ambivalent students. More than half of pupils in the small schools had applied elsewhere and were rejected, or had applied nowhere and were simply assigned to a small school.
Tags: aera, rural, education
