Saturday, January 07, 2006
Blogging About Rural Education
We are finding new items about rural education all over the place lately. This one comes to us from the blog of Michael Arnold at Mr. Rural ED.
2005 Mr. Rural ED Awards
2005 was a pretty good year for rural schools. The U.S. Department of Education made significant efforts to better serve rural schools and one of its comprehensive centers sponsored an important rural education summit. There were also some very good rural education articles published. On the downside, the Regional Educational Laboratories continued to neglect their obligations to rural schools, but at least they’re consistent. [Continued]
These two entries from a blog called think:lab...
Busing and Rural Consolidation
Life is about trade-offs. And sometimes for a kid that means getting up very, very early to go to school so that they can have a 'worthy' school to go to in the first place. A fair trade, right? Sometimes its a simple story about a simple kid that gets my attention: "Morning comes early for 17-year-old Monica Shaffer. She’s outside at 6:40, waiting high on Brown’s Mountain outside of Hacker Valley, West Virginia, with her younger brother, Raymond, when the feeder bus pulls off Replete Road. It’s the first leg of their 40-mile, nearly 90-minute trip to Webster County High School, located almost in the dead center of the state and the only secondary school in this sweeping, mountainous county. -- "Long Way Home", Teacher Magazine, 1-2.05 issue" A side personal note: When I was a new 9th grader, I found myself on a new bus route...and facing very different social expecations. [Continued]
Small Schools Planning Institute Only 2 Weeks Away!
was reminded of this great event while meeting with Dr. Michael Klonsky and his Small Schools Workshop team while up in Chicago through the holidays...and with only 2 weeks left to go, thought I'd toss out a reminder that there is still time to register: "5th Annual Small Schools Institute, 1.17-19.06, Clearwater, Florida." Link to register. [Continued]
Tags: aera, rural, education
2005 Mr. Rural ED Awards
2005 was a pretty good year for rural schools. The U.S. Department of Education made significant efforts to better serve rural schools and one of its comprehensive centers sponsored an important rural education summit. There were also some very good rural education articles published. On the downside, the Regional Educational Laboratories continued to neglect their obligations to rural schools, but at least they’re consistent. [Continued]
These two entries from a blog called think:lab...
Busing and Rural Consolidation
Life is about trade-offs. And sometimes for a kid that means getting up very, very early to go to school so that they can have a 'worthy' school to go to in the first place. A fair trade, right? Sometimes its a simple story about a simple kid that gets my attention: "Morning comes early for 17-year-old Monica Shaffer. She’s outside at 6:40, waiting high on Brown’s Mountain outside of Hacker Valley, West Virginia, with her younger brother, Raymond, when the feeder bus pulls off Replete Road. It’s the first leg of their 40-mile, nearly 90-minute trip to Webster County High School, located almost in the dead center of the state and the only secondary school in this sweeping, mountainous county. -- "Long Way Home", Teacher Magazine, 1-2.05 issue" A side personal note: When I was a new 9th grader, I found myself on a new bus route...and facing very different social expecations. [Continued]
Small Schools Planning Institute Only 2 Weeks Away!
was reminded of this great event while meeting with Dr. Michael Klonsky and his Small Schools Workshop team while up in Chicago through the holidays...and with only 2 weeks left to go, thought I'd toss out a reminder that there is still time to register: "5th Annual Small Schools Institute, 1.17-19.06, Clearwater, Florida." Link to register. [Continued]
Tags: aera, rural, education
