The Rural Schools and Community Trust
Working in some of the poorest, most challenging places, the Rural Trust involves young people in learning linked to their communities, improves the quality of teaching and school leadership, and advocates in a variety of ways for appropriate state educational policies, including the key issue of equitable and adequate funding for rural schools.
Goals
High quality place-based education, widely practiced in rural schools and communities
Effective, permanent organizations of rural people, active in every state, participating in state and local policy development and ensuring high-quality rural education.
A national agenda where rural people and their issues are visible and credible.
The Rural Schools and Community Trust recently granted funds for the Skowhegan Area Middle School and The Skowhegan High School to explore the initiative whereby the schools and the community would come together in a dynamic partnership. The results of this initiative can be seen on our published website celebrating this union. Technology integration was a key factor as students researched, communicated, designed websites, authored oral histories and much more. It can all be seen at :
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February 26, 2009 13:10 UTC