Education in Rural America: A Reassessment of Conventional Wisdom

Faith Dunne,Stuart Rosenfeld,Rachel Tompkins

Education in Rural America: A Reassessment of Conventional Wisdom
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
7 June 2019
Pages
414
ISBN
9780367017552

Education in Rural America: A Reassessment of Conventional Wisdom

Faith Dunne,Stuart Rosenfeld,Rachel Tompkins

Indifference has not always characterized American attitudes toward rural children, nor has neglect always been the cornerstone of state and federal policy toward rural education. Indeed, for nearly a century there was an avid and influential-though ultimately ineffective-rural school reform movement in the United States. But in recent years, rural education has become a skeleton in the closet of the education profession. More than 14 million children attend rural schools that receive only minuscule amounts of the nation s financial resources and professional attention. The authors of this book carefully analyze the beliefs, assumptions, policies, and practices that have shaped and continue to shape education in rural America, concluding that conventional wisdom in rural education has proved to be considerably more conventional than wise. They offer pragmatic suggestions for changes in rural schools, in educational policy, and in programs designed for rural communities. As Robert Coles tells us in his Foreword to the book, they give us clear, strong, uncluttered prose-a good sign that they are able to offer sensible, honest, unpretentious suggestions and useful ideas. They give us…a social history that enables perspective … and [they give us] practical, well-argued suggestions for a public policy both humane and capable of realization for our rural areas.

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