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PIEDMONT, Ala. (AP) — While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID pandemic, student performance in a rural Alabama school district was soaring.
In 1968, C.H. Erskine Smith, then Chairman of the USCCR’s Alabama State Advisory Committee implored: “the people of rural Alabama and the rural South must not be forgotten.”
This value dropped to 72% for the 2010–2011 school year, but at least 8 states had a lower figure than Alabama that year. [24] There have been concerns about literacy. 130 high schools out of 367 in the state either failed reading or were classified as "borderline" for 11th graders for the school year 2008–2009. 60% of Alabama's school ...
Experts on rural America were in Newbern to discuss barriers to affordable, resilient housing and the opportunities Alabama has to address them. Experts say these are the top 5 barriers to ...
The Rural School and Community Trust (Rural Trust) is an American national non-profit organization that aims to improve the relationship between rural schools and their communities. The Trust involves young people from rural areas in learning linked to their communities, aiming to improve the quality of teaching and school leadership, and ...
The amount of time the social group is exposed to the innovation; The nature of the social group; In a study by Surry and Farquhar, researchers explain that the theory of diffusion is used in occupations ranging from marketing to agriculture in order to ensure that new products, ideas, and techniques are well adopted by the social group. [4]
Increased pressure on schools and school systems that remain open: Localized school closures place burdens on schools as parents and officials redirect children to schools that are open. Dropout rates tend to rise: It is a challenge to ensure children and youth return and stay in school when schools reopen after closures. This is especially ...
The site of the old Decatur City Schools Central Office will act as a think tank and office for members of the Alabama Community College System Innovation Center. They will use the ...