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Sunday, April 16, 2006

 

Rural Education in the News

Still nothing from either the Google news alert or the Yahoo! news alert services that I have signed up for. But I did manage to find this one from e-School News ESN Tools for Schools.

Desire2Learn Brings Qualified Teachers to Alabama Rural Areas Through a State-Wide Distance Learning Initiative

From Desire2Learn Inc., April 4--Desire2Learn, a provider of enterprise eLearning solutions announced that the Alabama Department of Education has selected Desire2Learn's Learning Environment and Learning Object Repository to provide a state-wide distance learning initiative (ACCESS Distance Learning) to provide high-quality classroom courses and teachers, via technology....

http://www.desire2learn.com

And this one is not specifically about rural education, but the potential loss of rural life for a track of geography. It came in the Yahoo news service I receive for virtual schools.

Not fixing Louisiana levees now a distinct possibility
Detroit News Sat, 15 Apr 2006 1:09 AM PDT

BURAS, La. -- This small town is a sliver of land wedged between the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico, and when Hurricane Katrina made landfall here in August, a raging storm surge wrecked virtually every storefront, office and home.

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