A Town Turned Classroom: How a Focus on Farming Saved a Rural Kansas School

Autor/in	Headden, Susan
Institution	Education Sector
Titel	A Town Turned Classroom: How a Focus on Farming Saved a Rural Kansas School
Quelle	(2012), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Dropouts; College Attendance; Charter Schools; Rural Areas; Rural Education; Educational Change; Dropout Rate; Small Schools; Rural Schools; School Turnaround; School Community Relationship; Rural Farm Residents; Agricultural Occupations; Agricultural Production; Agriculture; Elementary Schools; Federal Aid; Student Projects; Active Learning; Experiential Learning; Special Education; Thematic Approach; School Administration; Educational Policy; Program Implementation; Program Effectiveness; Kansas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Bildungsreform; School; Schools; Schule; Rural areas; Schulen; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Production; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Schulprojekt; Aktives Lernen; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Themenzentrierter Unterricht; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	Educational achievement in rural America is one of the country's great overlooked challenges. Rural students achieve below the U.S. average on national tests, and high school dropout rates are higher and college attendance lower than they are in cities and suburbs. When the U.S. Department of Education asks low-achieving schools to be turned around, rural educators usually say they lack options: schools in many communities can't be closed because there are no other choices, and populations are too thin to support charter schools. But the Walton Rural Life Center, serving a population that has many of these problems, shows that there is genuine promise for rural carter schools--if, like Walton, they have the will and the imagination to try new approaches and to take advantage of the unique strengths of their communities. This paper describes how the Walton 21st Century Rural Life Center, a small school in rural Kansas, transformed both its students and its community. (Contains 9 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10