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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

 

Rural Reminder

The Center on Education Policy recently released a report comparing rural and non-rural districts' experiences with NCLB. The national sample of 349 districts included 116 rural sites. Findings include the following:

1. NCLB’s highly qualified teacher requirements appear to have had a limited impact on teacher recruitment and retention. Respondents report the most difficulty with achieving the highly qualified requirements in high school math and science.
2. A smaller proportion of rural than non-rural districts report achievement gaps for racial/ethnic minority students or English language learners (ELLs), but this may be because of small n sizes. However, a large percent of rural districts indicate gaps between special and
general education students, and gaps based on income.
3. Similarly to non-rural respondents, rural districts rate their own policies and programs as more important causes of improved student achievement than the provisions of NCLB. The exception is Reading First, which rural educators cite as being important to improved language arts achievement.

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