From the Google news alert for rural education.

SCHOOLS LEFT STUNNED AS CLOSURE CONSULTATION BEGINS
Lisburn Ulster Star - Lisburn,Northern Ireland,UK

... community. "In this age of diversity the right to choose a rural education for our children must not be denied to parents. "Our ...

Angola: BPC Micro-Credit Benefits Over 950 People
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA

... this year, from the project of the Angolan Government of micro-credit and credit to the consumption, for professionals of the Health, Education and Rural area. ...

Uganda: Answer to Uganda's Population Growth
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA

... especially for public education, procurement of contraceptives and for community-based distribution, became unavailable. Third, most rural Ugandans still ...

Hanover Twp. an area leader in rural education
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA

... and the combined vision of Hanover Twp.'s citizens to advance education. It was this moment that laid the foundation for Butler County's rural educational roots ...

Job training for farmers is key to global competitiveness: experts
Vietnam Economic Times - Hanoi,Vietnam

... in Can Tho City on rural Viet Nam’s integration into the world economy that attracted some 100 experts from across the country. Better education, he said ...

Brazil poor feel benefits of Lula's policies
BBC News - UK

... but many argue that it fails to address the structural problems that underpin poverty. Notably, shortcomings in rural education.

Agriculture accounts for 70 percent of child labour worldwide
Human Rights Education Associates (press release) - Cambridge,MA,USA

... FAO is working with UNESCO and other partners to overcome the urban/rural gap in education and to improve the quality of basic rural education and access to it ...

Cost of education discussed at Rock Springs Q&A session ...
Reedsburg Times Press - Reedsburg,WI,USA

ROCK SPRINGS-Education was the hot topic at Thursday night's question-and-answer session ... said funding schools on a per pupil basis hurts children in rural areas ...

'We must tackle root problems to stop unemployment boom'
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia

... slum areas in Jakarta, Surabaya, Semarang and many other big cities, while rural areas are ... of human resources has a lot to do with the poor education situation ...

Mega-fires of the future
The Australian - Sydney,Australia

Queensland Rural Fire Service community education officer Tim Watkins is warning those in the zone - the rural fringe around cities - that they must start ...

Poverty awards aim to highlight nation's endeavours
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China

... will take action to help the poor," said Xie Hailong, a volunteer photographer who has devoted the past decade to documenting the rural education situation. ...

This Mouth for Hire
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA

... and foundation pimp, came to Bloomsburg University in rural central Pennsylvania to ... and yet you are expressing expertise about higher education." He concluded ...

System failure: Teachers need more tech and people support
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA

... Of course if your school is in a poor area or a rural area, or ... Every institution has a mix of competent and incompetent people, but education seems especially ...

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Some entries about rural education that I've found out in the blogsphere...

Going Back to the One Room School
By dcannell on Blog entry

Our school division has a mix of small school (K-12 schools under 50 students) and larger schools ( 800 student high school which I realize is small in some circles). I’m realizing the challenges small schools face with multiple grades....

Football on the Great Plains
By michaellarnold

It's football season for high schools all across the country. In Colorado the new season provides fresh evidence of continued population loss on the Great Plains, and how rural schools and communities are adapting. Writing for the Denver Post, Robert...

Teacher Recrutment & Support
By michaellarnold

Mark your calendars to attend my session Twenty Strategies for Hiring and Keeping Effective Teachers at the National Rural Education Association Convention in Kansas City on Tuesday, October 24 at 10 am. Hobart Harmon and I will be discussing strategies...

Tags: AERA, small schools, rural, education

A message from: Gustavo Fischman (fischman@ASU.EDU) to EDREV@ASU.EDU

Reseñas Educativas/Education Review es una publicación académica con formato electrónico de reseñas de libros sobre educación. Reseñas Educativas/Education Review, se creo en 1998 y desde entonces ha publicado casi 1,600 reseñas. Todas las reseñas pueden ser consultadas gratuitamente em la siguiente dirección

Tedesco, Juan Carlos (Comp.). (2005). ¿Cómo superar la desigualdad y la fragmentación del sistema educativo argentino? Buenos Aires, Argentina: Instituto Internacional de Planeamiento Educativo (IIPE), UNESCO.

Reseñado por M. Fernanda Astiz Canisius Collage

Tromellini, Pina (2005). Un legado para la vida: ¿todavía se pueden transmitir valores a lo hijos? Barcelona, España: Graó

Reseñado por Tevni Grajales Guerra, Universidad de Montemorelos, Nuevo León, México

Tedesco, Juan Carlos (Comp.). (2005). ¿Cómo superar la desigualdad y la fragmentación del sistema educativo argentino? Buenos Aires, Argentina: Instituto Internacional de Planeamiento Educativo (IIPE), UNESCO.

Reseñado por M. Fernanda Astiz Canisius Collage

Tromellini, Pina (2005). Un legado para la vida: ¿todavía se pueden transmitir valores a lo hijos? Barcelona, España: Graó

Reseñado por Tevni Grajales Guerra, Universidad de Montemorelos, Nuevo León, México

Black, Paul; Harrison, Chris; Lee, Clare; Marshall, Bethan; & Wiliam, Dylan. (2003). Assessment for Learning: Putting it into Practice. New York: Open University Press.

Reviewed by Julie R. O'Brian, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.

hooks, bell. (2003). Teaching community: A pedagogy of hope. New York: Routledge.

Reviewed by Brooke Johnson, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center.

Fisher, Robert. (2005). Teaching children to think. (2nd ed.). Cheltenham, UK: Nelson Thornes Ltd. & Fisher, Robert. (2005). Teaching children to learn. (2nd ed.). Cheltenham, UK: Nelson Thornes Ltd.

Reviewed by Eric Jabal, OISE-University of Toronto.

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Please keep in mind that the deadline for submitting your review is Thursday, September 21.

Thanks again for the contribution of your service to AERA and Rural Education SIG.

Tags: AERA 2007, AERA, small schools, rural, education

From our Google news alert for rural education.

Up to Sabah to solve education woes
Daily Express - Kota Kinabalu,Sabah,Malaysia

... "To me, the big gap, for example, in facilities between rural and urban ... catching up with their studies, poverty, parents' attitude towards education, etc, are ...

Heart of darkness: Only 36% rural
The Statesman - Kolkata,India

... Gender inequality in rural areas revealed itself in the fact that only 31 per cent of girls complete primary education compared to 54 per cent of boys ...

Sabah calls for support to improve economy
Borneo Bulletin - borneo,Brunei Darussalam

... This was said by Sabah Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun during the launch of the Centre of Rural Education Development (Cred), run by the ...

Is local school performance linked to poverty?
The Athens News - Athens,OH,USA

... CATHERINE GLASCOCK, associate professor of educational studies at Ohio University, has researched rural education, school funding and school facilities. ...

WAR STOPS SCHOOL FOR MILLIONS
Special Broadcasting Service - Australia

... and August 2005, more than 11,800 students were abducted from rural schools for ... these countries receive the least amount of assistance for education - only two ... [See all stories on this topic]

UMS aims to help boost rural education, livelihood
Daily Express - Kota Kinabalu,Sabah,Malaysia

Kota Kinabalu: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) aims to help boost the quality of rural education and livelihood in Sabah with the official opening of its Rural ...

Proper education, delayed marriage can ensure women's empowerment
The Daily Star - Dhaka,Bangladesh

Proper education and delayed marriage of adolescent girls can ensure the empowerment ... Early marriage, which is still common in rural areas, increases the risk ...

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A message from "governance" (governance@aera.net) to aera_division_c-announce@listserv.aera.net

[Sent on behalf of Neil Schwartz, Division C Newsletter Editor]


The New Summer/Fall Division C Newsletter is now ready for viewing (http://www.aera.net/divisions/?id=68)-- award competition announcements, and interesting news and commentary.

If you have any feedback or corrections, please send them to Dr. Neil H. Schwartz, Editor at nschwartz@csuchico.edu.

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A message from Gustavo Fischman (fischman@ASU.EDU) to EDREV@ASU.EDU

Beccaria, Luís, Groisman, Frenando, Calero, Jorge, Larrea, Carlos, Barceinas, Fernando, & Cortés Cáceres, Fernando (2003). La incidencia de la educación sobre el bienestar de los hogares. Buenos Aires: SITEAL- UNESCO-IIPE-OEI.

Reseñado por José M. García-Paine University of Colorado, Boulder

Esta reseña puede ser consultada en Reseñas Recientes en la homepage de la revista:

Beccaria, Luís, Groisman, Frenando, Calero, Jorge, Larrea, Carlos, Barceinas, Fernando, & Cortés Cáceres, Fernando (2003). La incidencia de la educación sobre el bienestar de los hogares. Buenos Aires: SITEAL- UNESCO-IIPE-OEI.

Reseñado por José M. García-Paine University of Colorado, Boulder

This review can be accessed as the first item under Recent Reviews on the journal homepage.

Below are the remarks delivered by Matthew Wicks, Associate Director for Operations at the Illinois Virtual High School to a recent town hall meeting hosted by Senator Durbin.


Good morning. I am Matthew Wicks, Associate Director for Operations at the Illinois Virtual High School. I would like to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about IVHS, a program operated by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy for the Illinois State Board of Education; a program that has been providing tremendous opportunities for students in rural communities and throughout Illinois since 2001.

IVHS is all about providing opportunities. We provide opportunities for students to take a course that isn’t offered at their local schools, either because there isn’t enough demand or the school hasn’t been able to hire a qualified teacher. We provide opportunities for students who have not been academically successful in an area, by providing a different approach to teaching and learning. We provide opportunities for students in the summer to accelerate their pace by taking additional courses or perhaps instead to allow the student to stay on pace by re-taking a failed course. This has become increasingly important as fewer schools offer summer school. We provide opportunities for a homebound student to have regular instruction in a quality curriculum.

Ok, you get the theme – we provide opportunities and these opportunities are made possible by the Internet. Students take these classes online, receiving instruction from a certified Illinois teacher and interacting with their classmates from around the state. The students communicate using email, discussion boards and internet messaging as well as a web-conferencing system that combines voice communication, desktop video chat capability, a shared whiteboard for presentations and the ability to share computer desktops for demonstrations.

The quality of online learning is degraded by a slow or unreliable connection to the internet, both at school and at home and IVHS students learn both at school and at home. Over the past 10 years great progress has been made connecting k-12 schools through broadband to the internet, although many schools are now facing connectivity shortfalls because of the use of new kinds of learning content like streaming video, simulations, modeling, and collaborative workspaces. The “bandwidth problem” becomes even more acute when we look at the bandwidth shortfall that rural students face at home, knowing that rural communities have ½ the broadband connectivity as urban and suburban areas. Rural online students do not have the same opportunity to learn as their urban and suburban classmates.

While I could go on for quite some time about the impact of IVHS as we have provided over 9,000 course enrollments over the past 5 years, I will tell just a few stories that demonstrate the value of these opportunities to show why it is important to invest in IVHS and the broadband infrastructure that is necessary to maximize online learning.

There are the two boys from a rural town in central Illinois that were enrolled in an alternative high school for that area. These boys had come to view a D as success. They took an IVHS online history course and decided to compete to see who could earn the most points in the course. Not only did both of these boys pass, they both earned an A. In the second semester, they continued on and this time there was a girl from their community who was also having difficulty in her school enrolled in the course. While, we may never know their exact motivation for helping this new student, the end result was that all three students succeeded and were back on track to complete high school.

There is the girl, a competitive Olympic athlete who had started German at her high school but was away from school frequently for training. She utilized IVHS to successfully complete a second year in German so that she met the college admission requirement of 2 years of the same foreign language.

Both of these stories are stories that show how IVHS assisted students in completing high school and preparing for college. However, this last story is one of my favorites because of its uniqueness. A 50-year old businessman that had never graduated from high school took an IVHS online English course and obtained his high school diploma, in the process, providing an incredible example to the other students in the course.

IVHS makes a difference and will continue to make a difference by providing ALL Illinois students expanded opportunities to learn. Let’s make sure that everyone, including the students in rural Illinois has access to the technology required by programs such as IVHS.

Remarks of Matthew Wicks, Associate Director for Operations of the Illinois Virtual High School, given at a town hall meeting on August 25, 2006 organized by Senator Durbin at SIU-Carbondale

Tags: virtual school, cyber school, AERA, small schools, rural, education

The Google news alert for rural education.

Rural education
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China

... Farmers receive just 7.3 years of education on average and 92 percent of the country's illiterate and semiliterate people are in rural areas, said Wei. [See all stories on this topic]

Co-Op and state equipment grants will help locals in the battle of ...
The Eureka Reporter - Eureka,CA,USA

... Frost said the area’s district supervisors “talked about the needs of rural education and the need for minimal thresholds. I ...

More kids back to school
CCTV - Beijing,China

... next five years. Educators believe that the government's commitment will be a boom to rural education. The amended Compulsory Education ...

Child advocates say rural Pa. lacks high-quality child care
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA

... that await the 75 children under 5 who attend the Early Education Center of ... they would like to see become more common in Pennsylvania, especially in rural areas ...

2006 national rural teacher of year is Van-Cove’s Fryar
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription) - Little Rock,AR,USA

Reggie Fryar, a social studies and history teacher at Van-Cove High School in Cove, has been named the 2006 National Rural Education Association teacher of the ...

Johnson announces multi-million pound package to improve school ...
eGov monitor - London,UK

... and help tackle childhood obesity was announced today by Education Secretary Alan ... local producers - the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will ... [See all stories on this topic]

Safeguard farmer’s rights
CCTV - Beijing,China

... By the end of this year, primary and junior high school students in rural areas will no longer need to pay tuition and other education expenses. ... [See all stories on this topic]

Once blacklisted, Achyut Das’ NGO Agragamee is Naveen’s ...
insightorissa.com - India

... Three other NGOs – Centre for Youth and Social Development (CYSD), People’s Rural Education Movement (PREM) and Gram Vikas – are also partners in ...

Tag: AERA, small schools, rural, education

A message from Gene V Glass (glass@ASU.EDU) to EDREV@ASU.EDU

Education Review is an open access electronic journal publishing reviews of books in education. The Education Review has published more than 1,600 reviews since its inception in 1998. All reviews are freely accessible on the internet at http://edrev.asu.edu

The Education Review publishes reviews in Spanish and Portuguese as well as in English. The following
book has just been reviewed:

Bleedhorn, Berenice D. (2005). Education Is Everybody's Business: A Wake-up Call to Advocates of Educational Change. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education.

Reviewed by Adria Hoffman, University of Maryland at College Park.

Epstein, Kitty Kelly. (2006). A Different View of Urban Schools: Civil Rights, Critical Race Theory, and Unexplored Realities. New York: Peter Lang.

Reviewed by Jamel K. Donnor, Washington University in St. Louis.

Root, Susan; Callahan, Jane; & Billig, Shelley H. (Eds.). (2005). Improving Service-Learning Practice: Research on Models to Enhance Impacts. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Reviewed by Beronda Montgomery, Michigan State University.

This review can be accessed under Recent Reviews on the journal homepage http://edrev.asu.edu.
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Tags: Education Review, AERA, small schools, rural, education

A couple this week from Mr. Rural ED.

Linda Hall Leaving Center for Rural Education
By michaellarnold

Earlier today Linda Hall announced her departure as the Director of the Center for Rural Education. The announcement was made on the U.S. Department of Education's Rural Education listserv. To ListServ subscribers: Today marks my last day as the owner...

Rural Task Force July 2006 Meeting
By michaellarnold

Minutes from the July 17, 2006 meeting of the Secretary's Task Force on Rural Education have been posted on the Center for Rural Eduction section on the U.S. Department of Education's website. Of particular interest was a presentation by Phoebe...

And one from Derek's Blog.

Bringing remote schools in Samoa online

Just back from Samoa where I've had an extremely useful time interacting with people from all over the Pacific at the PacINET conference in Apia. Yesterday afternoon, before I left, I had the opportunity to travel by boat to the small island of Manono which lies between the main islands of Upolo and Savai'i. A small group of conference delegates made the trip to participate in the initial setting up and trialling of a receiver on the island to bring internet connectivity to a small school there. The photo above shows me adjusting the receivers - these are made in New Zealand by Waikato University. The 2020/Trust from New Zealand is the group that has initiated this project, in conjunction with a local computer services company in Samoa....

And finally, one from Distance-Educator.com's Daily News.

Broadband Widespread in Rural America

August 15, 2006, Arlington, Va. - Broadband availability in rural areas is comprehensive, and take rates continue to grow in the rural and high-cost areas served by independent communications providers, according to new survey results from the National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA). Read the Full Story

Tags: blog, blogging, blogs, AERA, small schools, rural, education

A message from Gene V Glass to EDREV@ASU.EDU

Reseñas Educativas/Education Review es una publicación académica con formato electrónico de reseñas de libros sobre educación. Reseñas Educativas/Education Review, se creo en 1998 y desde entonces ha publicado casi 1,600 reseñas. Todas las reseñas pueden ser consultadas gratuitamente em la siguiente dirección http://edrev.asu.edu

Reseñas Educativas/Education Review publica reseñas en español, portugués e inglés. El siguiente libro acaba de ser reseñado:

Alcántara Santuario, Armando. (2005). Entre Prometeo y Sísifo: Ciencia, tecnología y universidad en México y Argentina. Barcelona: Ediciones Pomares, S.A.

Reseñado por Pilar Mendoza, Oklahoma State University.

Sperber, Dan (2005). Explicar la cultura: un enfoque naturalista (P. Manzano, Trad.). Madrid, España: Ediciones Morata.

Reseñado por Liliana Bergesio Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, Argentina

Esta reseña pueden ser consultadas en Reseñas Recientes en la homepage de la revista: http://edrev.asu.edu/indexs.html.

Tags: Education Review, AERA, small schools, rural, education

The Google news alert for rural education.

Nigeria: Education in Nigeria Has No Positive Impact On the ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA

... Education is something that can help develop the rural community into a place that is vibrant so that people stay and make money and then move ahead. ...

2-yr rural service must for doctors
Mumbai Mirror - India

... The directorate of medical education and research (DMER) hit upon this idea to improve the poor state of rural health centres, which seldom have doctors. ...

Delivery of public services
Hindu - Chennai,India

... competition, as the case study points out, has increased the rural-urban digital ... Rajasthan's experience with new models of education is taken to illustrate a ...

Namibia: Rural Education Shaping Up
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA

... She is happy to report that the morale of rural teachers is very high and that they work exceptionally hard to achieve their education goals. ...

Officials hope sales tax boost helps rural schools
Rock Hill Herald - Rock Hill,SC,USA

... poverty," said Hayes, a senate finance committee member who also chairs a Senate committee on the state Education Finance Act. "These rural districts generally ...

Rounds & Billion Hold Meetings
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA

... a series of meetings on education in recent weeks. Democratic candidate Jack Billion will hold an open-door meeting on agriculture and rural development today ...

Andhra Pradesh renews MoU with ISRO
Times of India - India

... Friday renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for application of satellite technology in rural education. ...

Rural teens 'miss out on chances
'Guardian Unlimited - UK

... New 14-19 vocational diplomas are unlikely to be offered at every further education college in rural areas despite teenagers having a statutory entitlement to ...

Satellite technology in rural education
Andhra Cafe - Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh,India

... has renewed its Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for application of satellite technology in rural education. ...

Fowler Public Schools receives $38,276 grant
Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA

... Public Schools are pleased to announce that they are a recipient of the Small Rural School Achievement Grant under the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP ...

Tags: AERA, small schools, rural, education

From Gene V Glass to EDREV@ASU.EDU.

Education Review is an open access all-electronic journal of book reviews residing at http://edrev.asu.edu.
Education Review publishes brief reviews of new books monthly, and has just published brief reviews for September 2006. These reviews can be accessed directly at http://edrev.asu.edu/brief/index.html

The books reviewed and their reviewers are as follows:

Abell, Sandra K. & Volkmann, Mark J. (2006) Seamless Assessment in Science: A Guide for Elementary and Middle School Teachers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Reviewed by Myka H. Raymond, Overland High School, Aurora, Colorado.

Allen, Janet & Landaker, Christine (2004). Reading History: A Practical Guide to Improving Literacy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reviewed by Melissa Cast, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Barnes, Donald L. & Fischer, Wyman E. (2005). Teaching Thinking Skills Using Non-Fiction Narratives, Book 3: Grades 7 and 8. Marion, IL: Pieces of Learning. Reviewed by Sheila Kirven, Education Services Librarian, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ.

Boudett, Kathryn Parker; City, Elizabeth A. & Murnane, Richard J. (Eds.). (2005) Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Publishing. Reviewed by Shirley Key, Associate Professor, University of Memphis

Brighouse, Harry (2006) On Education. London: Routledge. Reviewed by Michael W. Simpson, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Cartledge, Gwendolyn & Lo, Ya-yu (2006). Teaching Urban Learners: Culturally Responsive Strategies for Developing Academic and Behavioral Competence. Champaign, IL: Research Press. Reviewed by Mary Ransdell, University of Memphis.

Goldberg, Mark F. (2006). Insider's Guide to School Leadership: Getting Things Done Without Losing Your Mind. San Francisco, CA: Josey Bass. Reviewed by Jess House, University of Central Florida

Hillman, Carol B. (2006) Mentoring Early Childhood Educators: A Handbook for Supervisors, Administrators & Teachers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Reviewed by Venesser M. Pate, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Johnson, Paul (2006). Get Writing! Creative Book-Making Projects for Children. Markham, Ontario: Pembroke Publishers, distributed by Stenhouse. Reviewed by Heidi C. Mullins, Eastern Washington University

Reeves, Douglas B. (2006). The Learning Leader: How to Focus School Improvement for Better Results. Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Reviewed by Kevin Braney, Boulder Valley (CO) School District.

Sarkisian, Ellen (2006). Teaching American Students: A Guide for International Faculty and Teaching Assistants in Colleges and Universities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Reviewed by Michelle E. Bartlett, Clemson University, and James E. Bartlett, II, University of South Carolina.

Wormeli, Rick (2006). Fair Isn’t Always Equal: Assessing & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom. Westerville, OH: National Middle School Association. Reviewed by Cynthia Crosser, University of Maine.
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Kate Corby, Brief Reviews Editor
Gene V Glass, Editor
Gustavo Fischman, Editor for Spanish & Portuguese

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