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Download full textShowalter, Daniel; Hartman, Sara L.; Johnson, Jerry; Klein, Bob – Rural School and Community Trust, 2019
The majority of rural students attend school in a state where they make up less than 25 percent of public school enrollment. More than one rural student in four lives in states where rural students constitute less than 15 percent of overall enrollment. "Why Rural Matters 2018-19: The Time Is Now," shows that nearly 7.5 million public…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Public Schools, Student Diversity, Educational Policy
Johnson, Jerry; Showalter, Daniel; Klein, Robert; Lester, Christine – Rural School and Community Trust, 2014
"Why Rural Matters 2013-14" is the seventh 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 seventh in a series, this report is not simply an…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Educational Indicators, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedHowley, Caitlin; Johnson, Jerry; Passa, Aikaterini; Uekawa, Kazuaki – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the college enrollment and persistence rates of rural high schools in Pennsylvania; the types of postsecondary institutions in which students from such schools enroll; and the student, school, and college characteristics associated with enrollment and persistence outcomes. The study used extant data from…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High School Students, College Bound Students, Postsecondary Education
Strange, Marty; Johnson, Jerry; Showalter, Daniel; Klein, Robert – Rural School and Community Trust, 2012
"Why Rural Matters 2011-12" is the sixth 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 sixth in a series, this report is not simply an…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, Educational Policy, Annual Reports
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
Levin, Jesse; Manship, Karen; Chambers, Jay; Johnson, Jerry; Blankenship, Charles – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2011
This report presents the first detailed comparison of resource allocation between rural and nonrural districts in the West Region. Three regional characteristics often associated with rural districts were chosen for the analysis: district enrollment, student population density within a district (students per square mile), and drive time from the…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools
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
Johnson, Jerry; Strange, Marty – Rural School and Community Trust, 2005
In 2002-2003, 27% (12.5 million) of public school students attended school in communities of fewer than 25,000 and 19% (8.8 million) attended school in smaller communities of fewer than 2,500. In this report, the authors focus on the schools in those smaller communities, the most rural schools in America. They frame the report around 22…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Poverty, Socioeconomic Status
