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Mr. Rural ED has Moved
By Michael Arnold

Mr. Rural ED has moved to a new weblog service. The new service is more powerful allowing for multiple authors and more flexibility in design. The new site also allows users to subscribe to an RSS news feed of the blog. Visit the new home of Mr. Rural ED at http://mrruraled.typepad.com/

These entries below are summaries from his new site. I'm no sure how much of this is moving old entries to the new site and how much is new content, but I have provided them all here.

Charateristics of Rural School Districts
By michaellarnold

A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics introduces data from the fifth administration of the School and Staffing Survey (SASS). It is the most extensive sample survey of teachers and administrators in the U.S. Characteristics of Schools,...

REL Contracts Announced
By michaellarnold

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Education issued a press release announcing that the department had awarded new 5-year contracts to 10 Regional Educational Laboratories. There is some information in the announcement that I didn't have when I posted Four Labs...

AERA Rural Education SIG Sessions
By michaellarnold

The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association is being held April 7 - 11 in San Francisco. The sessions sponsored by the Rural Education Special Interest Group are listed below. Users can do an online search of the...

State Funding for Out-of-State Rural Students
By michaellarnold

By Rural School Blogger (AKA Stephen Bohrer) I understand from talking to Paula Stephenson, director of the Colorado Rural Schools Caucus, that an amendment to the Colorado school finance bill that passed out of the Colorado House of Representatives may...

Four Labs Flip
By michaellarnold

The U.S. Department of Education has annouced that four of the ten regional educational laboratories have been awarded to new organizations. The RELs constitute the largest investment by the federal government into rural education research. The new lab contract holders...

Navigating Resources for Rural Schools
By michaellarnold

I hadn't been there for awhile, so I was surprised to see a new look for the U.S. Department of Education's Navigating Resources for Rural Schools site. It's a definite improvement over the look of the old site, which included...

NREA Research Symposium
By michaellarnold

Michael L. Arnold Friday, March 24, 2006 This notice came in from Bob Mooneyham, Executive Director of the National Rural Education Association. ---------- The National Rural Education Association will host the NREA Research Symposium on October 21-22, 2006, at the...

Rural Middle School Student Homework Management
By michaellarnold

Michael L. Arnold Thursday, March 23, 2006 A recently article from "The Journal of Research in Rural Education" makes the a contribution to our understanding of differences between rural and nonrural students. Authors Janzhong Xu and Lyn Corno examine homework...

Education Service Agencies Supporting Rural Schools
By michaellarnold

Michael L. Arnold Tuesday, March 21, 2006 An article in the March 2006 issue of "The School Administrator" describes the ways intermediate school districts are providing support to rural districts. Author Hobart Harmon uses examples from across the country to...

A Perfect Storm on the Great Plains
By michaellarnold

Michael L. Arnold Thursday, March 16, 2006 A March 16 report in the Denver Post describes a perfect storm of factors creating population declines in the Great Plains. Author Robert Sanchez (Plains Grow More Lonesome) cites minimal economic development in...

The 65% Solution
By michaellarnold

Michael L. Arnold Tuesday, February 28, 2006 The Denver Post has done a great public service by educating the public about a proposed ballot measure that would require Colorado's pubic school to allocated at least 65% of their current operating...

NRCRES Website
By michaellarnold

Michael L. Arnold Friday, February 17, 2006 The other day I was wondering whether the National Research Center on Rural Education Support (NRCRES) had gotten a website yet. Son of a gun, they do! It's a pretty good-looking site. The...

Update on Colorado HR 1150
By michaellarnold

Michael L. Arnold Sunday, February 12, 2006 Last week the Colorado House Committee on Education voted down HR 1150, a bill to establish statewide standards for when public schools in Colorado could start and end the school year. The bill...

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