Sunday, January 22, 2006
Rural Education in the News
The Google News Alert for rural education for this week.
ECU notes: College acquires Hubble mural
Greenville Daily Reflector - Greenville, NC, USA
East Carolina University's College of Education Department of Mathematics and Science Education was one of two locations in North Carolina selected to participate in a national unveiling of a mural-sized image of the Great Orion Nebula. The photograph of the nebula shows the turbulent star birth cloud recorded by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in exquisite and unprecedented detail. ECU and the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh each unveiled images on Wednesday.
That education pill
Hindustan Times - India
The Annual Status of Education Report was conceived by an educational NGO as a citizen’s audit when it embarked on its survey of 9,252 rural schools in 28 states, with villages chosen at random. The purpose was to understand how rural populations viewed existing facilities and infrastructure and whether these were being efficiently used. The results that have been reported should make more than just officials at the state level sit up. The figures that have emerged paint a dreary picture. The states that are considered to have fairly good school infrastructure, like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat are inculcating poor learning abilities in their children, while the states of Bihar and Chhattisgarh which lack in basic school facilities, have turned out brighter students with better cognitive abilities. [See all stories on this topic]
Digital Divide Separates Rural, Urban Internet Users
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
Access to high-speed Internet can differ substantially between urban and rural dwellers, according to a new report by the Center for Rural Policy and Development. The center, based in St. Peter, Minn., says people in rural areas have a harder time getting broadband access at competitive and reasonable prices. The study shows, for example, that about 44 percent of homes in the Twin Cities area have high-speed Internet. That compares with just over 27 percent in rural Minnesota. [See all stories on this topic]
Dora and Elida among quality school districts
Portales News-Tribune - Portales, NM, USA
When it comes to meeting No Child Left Behind mandates, small schools reign, and state officials have noticed. Nine rural school districts in eastern New Mexico, including Dora and Elida have been named “quality districts” by the Public Education Department and Gov. Bill Richardson. Those nine districts, in addition to 21 others across the state, will be officially recognized for making Adequate Yearly Progress in an awards ceremony Jan. 20 at the Capitol. [See all stories on this topic]
BOTSWANA: Paying school fees no sign of enthusiasm for new policy ...
African News Dimension - Johannesburg, South Africa
In an interview with AND, presidential spokesman Jeff Ramsay said despite delays in the assessment process of those parents who applied for exemption from paying, the new school term had started without any of the problems which education stakeholders feared would affect the sector because of the re-introduction of school fees.“Everything has gone well so far. The parents are still paying and we expect the education ministry to make a full statement shortly. All the children are going to school. Even those whose parents applied for exemption but have not been assessed will remain are at school,” Ramsay told A.N.D. [See all stories on this topic]
Tags: AERA, rural, education
ECU notes: College acquires Hubble mural
Greenville Daily Reflector - Greenville, NC, USA
East Carolina University's College of Education Department of Mathematics and Science Education was one of two locations in North Carolina selected to participate in a national unveiling of a mural-sized image of the Great Orion Nebula. The photograph of the nebula shows the turbulent star birth cloud recorded by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in exquisite and unprecedented detail. ECU and the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh each unveiled images on Wednesday.
That education pill
Hindustan Times - India
The Annual Status of Education Report was conceived by an educational NGO as a citizen’s audit when it embarked on its survey of 9,252 rural schools in 28 states, with villages chosen at random. The purpose was to understand how rural populations viewed existing facilities and infrastructure and whether these were being efficiently used. The results that have been reported should make more than just officials at the state level sit up. The figures that have emerged paint a dreary picture. The states that are considered to have fairly good school infrastructure, like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Gujarat are inculcating poor learning abilities in their children, while the states of Bihar and Chhattisgarh which lack in basic school facilities, have turned out brighter students with better cognitive abilities. [See all stories on this topic]
Digital Divide Separates Rural, Urban Internet Users
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
Access to high-speed Internet can differ substantially between urban and rural dwellers, according to a new report by the Center for Rural Policy and Development. The center, based in St. Peter, Minn., says people in rural areas have a harder time getting broadband access at competitive and reasonable prices. The study shows, for example, that about 44 percent of homes in the Twin Cities area have high-speed Internet. That compares with just over 27 percent in rural Minnesota. [See all stories on this topic]
Dora and Elida among quality school districts
Portales News-Tribune - Portales, NM, USA
When it comes to meeting No Child Left Behind mandates, small schools reign, and state officials have noticed. Nine rural school districts in eastern New Mexico, including Dora and Elida have been named “quality districts” by the Public Education Department and Gov. Bill Richardson. Those nine districts, in addition to 21 others across the state, will be officially recognized for making Adequate Yearly Progress in an awards ceremony Jan. 20 at the Capitol. [See all stories on this topic]
BOTSWANA: Paying school fees no sign of enthusiasm for new policy ...
African News Dimension - Johannesburg, South Africa
In an interview with AND, presidential spokesman Jeff Ramsay said despite delays in the assessment process of those parents who applied for exemption from paying, the new school term had started without any of the problems which education stakeholders feared would affect the sector because of the re-introduction of school fees.“Everything has gone well so far. The parents are still paying and we expect the education ministry to make a full statement shortly. All the children are going to school. Even those whose parents applied for exemption but have not been assessed will remain are at school,” Ramsay told A.N.D. [See all stories on this topic]
Tags: AERA, rural, education
