Digital Rural Schools
Community 2 membersRural schools face unique challenges everyday. For example, due to funding and class size issues, they often are not able to offer a variety of classes. Read more about the isues faced by rural schools along wtih the methods that can be used to face these challenges.
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News: Expanding Postsecondary and Career Readiness in Rural Areas
Rural schools face different types of challenges in preparing students for successful postsecondary education and career experiences than we often hear about in our typically urban-centered research and policy discussions. Most of education research takes place in an urban setting, and we often don’t know if what works in that context will translate.
One strategy to increase college success is to provide options for high school students to earn college credit. The idea is that these classes can help introduce students to the rigors of college work in high school and demonstrate to students that college is a possibility.