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Resources for Rural Schools

Posted January 26th, 2006 by Lisa Broniszewski in Education, Rural Sociology

NCES has recently updated its rural education website, Navigating Resources for Rural Schools. The site starts with a basic overview of how locale is defined in various NCES data collections. The section on students shows tables on enrollment and participation rates, assessment, progress through school, and expenditures and revenues per student. The section on teachers includes statistics on their credentials, salaries, attrition, and student/teacher ratios. Course offerings are found with school discipline, technology, and other measures in the section on the school environment. Sections on community and financial support provide data on parents’ satisfaction and engagement with schools, as well as customary measures of fiscal resources.

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