Publication Date
| In 2025 | 0 |
| Since 2024 | 0 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 2 |
Descriptor
| Brain Drain | 2 |
| Rural Schools | 2 |
| Student Attitudes | 2 |
| Academic Achievement | 1 |
| Academic Aspiration | 1 |
| Academically Gifted | 1 |
| Authentic Learning | 1 |
| Change Agents | 1 |
| Community | 1 |
| Focus Groups | 1 |
| Gender Differences | 1 |
| More ▼ | |
Publication Type
| Journal Articles | 2 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
| Reports - Research | 1 |
Education Level
| Secondary Education | 2 |
| Elementary Education | 1 |
| Grade 6 | 1 |
| High Schools | 1 |
| Intermediate Grades | 1 |
| Junior High Schools | 1 |
| Middle Schools | 1 |
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
But We Don't Got Nothing: Countering Rural Brain Drain by Forging Authentic Connections through Text
Peer reviewed
Direct linkErin Donovan – English Journal, 2017
This article, based on a study in a sixth-grade middle school classroom in the rural southern United States, details a writing project that questions the nature of text and how text might positively affect students' perceptions as they become change agents for their communities.
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Grade 6, Middle Schools, Writing Assignments
Petrin, Robert A.; Schafft, Kai A.; Meece, Judith L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
An extended body of research has documented the outmigration of the "best and brightest" youth from rural areas. Some of this scholarship has suggested that rural schools and educators may be complicit in this process as they devote extra attention and resources to the highest achieving students--those most likely to leave their rural…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Rural Schools, Multivariate Analysis, Mixed Methods Research
