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Johnson, Jerry; Strange, Marty – Rural School and Community Trust, 2009
This report is the fifth in a series of biennial reports analyzing the contexts and conditions of rural education in each of the 50 states and calling attention to the need for policymakers to address rural education issues in their respective states. While it is the fifth in a series, this report is not simply an updating of data from earlier…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Public Schools, Rural Education, Student Diversity
Johnson, Jerry; Strange, Marty; Madden, Karen – Rural School and Community Trust, 2010
This report reviews high school dropout rates and related factors in rural high schools throughout 15 Southern and Southwestern states. These schools are in districts that are among the 800 rural districts with the highest student poverty rate nationally. Seventy-seven percent of the "Rural 800" districts and 87 percent of the students in them are…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Poverty, Income, Graduation Rate