Rural Education for the Twenty-First Century
Schafft, Kai A. (Director, Center on Rural Education and Communities, Penn State University) / Jackson, Alecia Youngblood (Associate Professor, Appalacian State University)
Rural places and their schools have a long history of community-based traditions, political and cultural conservatism, and intergenerational construction of local and community identity. However, the face of rural communities, both in the U.S. and abroad, is being radically transformed by the economic effects of multinational free trade agreements, the proliferation of mass media and information technology, and educational reforms such as No C...
