Rural schools, and the large chunk of the nation's students who attend them, face challenges every bit as daunting as those of their urban counterparts. It is important to keep in mind that rural schools differ greatly from one another. But as a group, students in these schools generally score as well as or better than non-rural students on standardised tests. The makeup of student populations in rural schools differs considerably across the country as well. As a whole, rural students are predominantly white. Studies in several states have shown that small schools and districts can overcome the adverse effects of poverty on student achievement and narrow the achievement gap between poor students and their more affluent peers.

Zusammenfassung
Rural schools, and the large chunk of the nation's students who attend them, face challenges every bit as daunting as those of their urban counterparts. It is important to keep in mind that rural schools differ from one another. But as a group, students in these schools score as well as or better than non-rural students on standardised tests.

Inhalt

Preface; Multifunctional Centers in Rural Areas: Fabrics of Social and Human Capital; Rural Teacher Education: Evidence from the Greek Small Rural Primary Schools; Rural Medical Education; Refugee Centered Education: Critical Theory in Practice; Teaching for Social Change in the 21st. Century: Global Education Prepares Educators to Work in Rural Schools; Rural Development Programs in Argentina and Its Institutions (in the Context of Neoliberal Acroeconomic Adjustment); Understanding the pedagogies of exclusion: Towards a language pedagogy of inclusivity for marginalised children in South Africa; School Reforms in Post-Independence Ghana: Trends and Issues in Special Education; From Caring to Education for Children with Severe Disabilities in a Rural Context; An Overview of USDA Rural Development Programs; Index.