The editor’s note: Time to invest in rural education

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Author(s):  
Rafael Heller
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Policy Attention

For decades, the needs of rural schools and students have received scant media and policy attention and have had to make do with insufficient funds. As Rafael Heller explains, the current education policy landscape is opening up opportunities for rural education advocates to press for the kinds of reforms that could improve both rural school and their communities overall.

scholarly journals Safety at Schools: Identifying the Costs Associated with the Necessary Safeguards for Arming Educators

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer C. Weiler ◽  
Luke Cornelius ◽  
Jacob D. Skousen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
School Safety ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Financial Costs

Editors’ note: The Rural Educator publishes a policy brief each issue, intended to explore topics pertinent to rural education policy and advocacy. The issue of school safety is particularly timely, especially for rural schools. We believe this essay, based on surveys of school leaders in Colorado, takes a unique perspective by examining the financial costs that might be associated with policies to place guns in schools.

scholarly journals Commentary: Times Article on Rural School Misses Half the Story—Educational Success

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-73
Author(s):  
Sheneka Williams ◽  
Mara Casey Tieken
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Educational Success ◽  
Good Education

Despite lack of funding, rural schools can serve as sites of learning, community, and excellence. We need to understand both the problems and opportunities to make good education policy. This commentary was originally published in the October 6th edition of The Daily Yonder.

scholarly journals National Rural Education Association 106th Annual Conference and Research Symposium

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather E. Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Rural Students ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
School Partnerships ◽  
Conference Theme ◽  
Technology Applications ◽  
Education Association

The National Rural Education Association seeks presentation proposals from rural school teachers, administrators, researchers, and others interested in the future of rural education. This year’s conference theme is IMAGINE, and we are seeking presenters to share innovative practice or research related to the changing needs of rural students and the changing face of rural education.Areas of particular interest include: Rural School Innovations, Advancing Learning Through Technology, Rural School Reform, Meeting Common Core Standards, Technology Applications for School Leaders, Redesigning Learning for 21st Century Skills, Rural School Partnerships, Policy Implications for Rural Schools, and Evaluating Effects of Rural Schools.

scholarly journals Will They Stay or Will They Go? Leadership Behaviors That Increase Teacher Retention in Rural Schools

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Matthew Frahm ◽  
Marie Cianca
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Teacher Retention ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
New Teachers ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Rural School

Hard-to-staff rural schools often struggle to attract and retain promising educators. Experts have consistently identified administrative support in rural schools to be of unique importance for recruitment and retention, yet a lack of clarity continues to surround the specific leadership behaviors that new teachers interpret as supportive. This qualitative study collected data from three focus groups; including superintendents, principals, and teachers in a program for aspiring administrators; and found that rural schools have to try much harder and in more active ways to retain new teachers because of the constraints existing within rural education. Rural school support for new teachers needs to be a collective responsibility to positively impact the retention of new teachers and the structural supports, affirmation, and encouragement offered by their organizations help to heighten the retention of new teachers. The study confirms that rural school leaders can leverage leadership behaviors to better retain talented teachers.

scholarly journals Killing Mayberry: The Crisis in Rural American Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Bryant Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
American Education ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Pressures ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
The Impact

The article provides an overview of the turbulent and challenging times facing teachers and administrators in rural schools. The article examines literature from over the past decade to paint a full picture of the economic and social pressures exerting themselves in rural America and the impact these forces are having in rural schools. This work argues that rural education has been ignored too long by policy makers and even many Americans, and that this crime of omission has had disastrous consequences for many small communities. The article concludes with an examination of some of the tentative but hopeful steps that are being taken to address the crisis in rural education.

scholarly journals Impacts and changes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in librarianship: the rural school library scenario

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Daniela Carla de Oliveira ◽  
Marcos Gehrke
Keyword(s):  
Rural Schools ◽  
School Library ◽  
Field Research ◽  
School Community ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Rural School ◽  
Community Libraries ◽  
Precarious Situation

This article presents data on the impacts and changes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic on librarianship within the context of rural school libraries. We understand the work in libraries as a special activity that is only valued if contextualized. Thus, we question the role of the library and the librarian practices in the current pandemic scenario with the purpose of updating the debate on librarianship in rural schools. To this end, we conducted a bibliographic and exploratory field research mediated by the application of a questionnaire. We conclude by highlighting the precarious situation that prevents actions and activities to encourage reading and the dissemination of pedagogical resources to support school and school-community libraries.

scholarly journals O processo formativo: história, memória e trajetória de egressos/as do curso de Licenciatura em Educação do Campo da Universidade Federal de Roraima (LEDUCARR/UFRR)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Consuelem da Silva Sarmento ◽  
Sergio Luiz Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Rural Education ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Formative Experience ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
Training Path

The object of this study is the formative trajectory of graduates of the Degree Course in Rural Education at the Federal University of Roraima. The main objective was to identify the challenges of the teaching profession from the perspective of these subjects, based on their formative experience in that course. The research adopted as an instrument for data collection the interview (with 16 graduates), based on the oral history method (Thompson, 1998). The analysis, of a qualitative nature, was structured from the categories: the training path and the teaching profession. The voices of the graduates revealed the importance of this course as an implementation of public policies for the training, at a higher level, of field subjects, which was a dream for most of the survey respondents. In addition, they exposed the difficulties encountered in getting a place to work in rural schools. For most interviewees, the lack of recognition of the course by government entities affects the offer of places in selective and public examinations. Thus, this work aims to expand the debate on proposals for Rural Education.

scholarly journals Interface das políticas da Educação Especial e Educação do Campo sobre a formação de professores

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Arlindo Lins de Melo Junior ◽  
Ivan Fortunato ◽  
Jackeline Silva Alves ◽  
Teresa Cristina Leança Soares Alves
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Legal Documents

In special education and rural education interface we find important points about teacher training and their reflexes in the schooling of special education students in rural schools. This paper fulfills the objective of analyzing fundamental documents of the two teaching modalities in question in order to understand mainly what concerns teacher training. The methodological path used in the construction of this text was guided by documentary research of four legal documents of the two teaching modalities. In the policy interface, we saw that the investigated documentation shows concern with the quality of teacher training, although it does not deal with careers and professional development, nor with more specific aspects of the role of Higher Education Institutions in their training. In the end, it is hoped that the discussions presented here will help to promote new and denser research on the fundamental role that teachers play in rural schools.

The Politics of Student Voice: The Power and Potential of Students as Policy Actors

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Anjalé D. Welton ◽  
Katherine Cumings Mansfield ◽  
Jason D. Salisbury
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Student Voice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Politics Of Education ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Theory To Practice ◽  
Education Association ◽  
Political Realities ◽  
Opening Up

Historically and contemporarily students have been critical to bringing issues of justice in education policy to the fore. Yet, there have been limited formal spaces that elevate student voice scholarship in educational policy. In response, this Politics of Education Association (PEA) Yearbook Issue of Educational Policy aims to serve as a platform for opening up new areas for investigation, especially connections between theory to practice specific to student voice in educational policy and the politics of education. This collection of feature articles and research briefs offer diverse examples of how students are influencing change in education policy and practice, while also presenting the political realities and tensions that emerge when students participate in policy leadership activities.

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