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White House Rural Council’s Health IT Initiative Helps Community Colleges Tailor Programs to Workforce Needs
By John White, Judy Murphy, and Thomas Morris With a major workforce transition underway in many rural hospitals and health clinics, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted a conference … Continue reading
#RuralED Chat Addresses Partnerships and Community Resources
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Rural Outreach John White joined W.K. Kellogg Foundation CEO Sterling Speirn recently in a discussion on Twitter about using partnerships and other resources to address the needs of high poverty rural schools. A snapshot of the … Continue reading
How Are You Increasing Opportunities in Rural Schools?
President Obama’s FY2013 budget request includes a discretionary funding increase of $1.7 billion for education, maintains critical formula funding that many rural schools depend on, and proposes new grant opportunities to support innovation. Many rural schools are forming partnerships to … Continue reading
Rural Educator Bringing Change
Cross-posted from the White House Blog. In 2005 when I first began working with the Alamance-Burlington School System in North Carolina to start a college access and career awareness program, “What’s After High School?,” this quote in the office at … Continue reading
Rural Recruits: College and Careers Available
Even in a remote rural community like Altus, Okla., there are clear connections between education and the economy. During a recent visit to the Air Education and Training Command at Altus Air Force Base, I was reminded of a question … Continue reading
Posted in College Completion, Headlines, News, Rural
Tagged College & Career Ready, Military, Rural
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FFA at White House Rural Economic Forum
“I was an FFA member back in the day” … “Some of my greatest memories are as a student in a rural setting” … “We believe in the future of agriculture and in students like you. Comments like these were … Continue reading
Join ED’s John White for #EDRuralChat
The U.S. Department of Education’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Rural Outreach, John White, will host the agency’s first Twitter Rural Forum at #EDRuralChat on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 3-3:30 p.m. EDT. Beginning today, Twitter users can submit questions on rural education … Continue reading
White House Rural Roundtable Meeting in Tennessee
A healthy American economy depends on a prosperous rural America. Which is why President Obama created the White House Rural Council to build upon the administration’s robust economic strategy for rural America, and to ensure that rural communities drive innovation … Continue reading
ED and USDA Promote the Value in Rural Partnerships
Land-grant university Cooperative Extension Services can be valuable partners for rural schools, particularly in distant and remote areas where other partnerships are hard to come by. During a recent webinar, School Improvement Grant (SIG) administrators in state education departments learned … Continue reading
Inspiration Overcomes Anxiety for Future Teachers in Rural Illinois
Why teach? “This may sound like a hippie answer, but I want to change the world,” said future teacher Joelle Schulda, when asked what drew her to education. “If I can reach just one child—who knows?—that child could grow up to … Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, News, Rural, Teachers, Teaching Profession, What We Heard
Tagged Community Colleges, Rural, TEACH.gov
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SIG Grant Invested in Teachers, Technology at Rural Turnaround High School
Teachers and administrators in the rural village of DePue, Ill—more than 100 miles southwest of Chicago—are connecting with their colleagues and students in new and exciting ways as they lead the difficult work of turning around academic achievement in their … Continue reading
The Rural Imperative
Education and the economy are inextricably linked and improving both is the rural imperative — a critical challenge facing our nation. Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan issued a challenge and made a promise to approximately 200 educators, business … Continue reading
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