In "Learning to Leave," Michael Corbett argues that: (1) education has served as a tool to disassociate students--both physically and culturally--from the places from which they come, particularly if they are from rural places, in effect creating an ambivalence toward education; (2) the ways in which individuals express this ambivalence…

A former student from the Arthur Morgan School, a residential school in rural North Carolina, reminiscences about an adventure that he instigated while attending junior high. Years later, a teacher who witnessed the incident shared his pleasure on finding that students were not being mischievous as expected, but instead, finishing work that should…

The quality of education received by children in the southern states will be greatly impacted by technological change, which will present educators with both unprecedented opportunities and substantial risks. As the four model programs described in this paper illustrate, advances in telecommunications and computer hardware and software can be used…