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Who is your go-to source for rural education?
July 7th, 2011
Thanks to Alan Richard, the Director of Communications at Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), I’ve recently become a fan of the rural education blog posts at Education Week. Written by Diette Courrege, the blog posts covers a range of education topics. Her posts are quickly becoming my go-to source for information on rural education. A second source of information is the Daily Yonder. My favorite author there on educational issues is Dr. Caitlin Howley. She has a flare for social justice issues, and isn’t afraid to stand up for rural schools. On a more local level, I also follow the Rural School Partnership. I appreciate how they regularly update their website with information on their efforts to connect philanthropy, scholarships for rural students, and place-based education in the Ozarks. Their work serves as a source of inspiration. Unfortunately, this is a short list. It’s way too short for a person who professes that education is a key driver for the economic success of our rural communities. And that’s where I hope you can help. Where do you go for information on rural education?
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Shaping the New Rural with Backbone and Clay
June 10th, 2011
Editors Note: Joe Bartmann returned to the Rural Learning Center in February to become its president. Longtime readers will recognize Joe's writings from his previous stint at the RLC. As Joe settles into his job, we hope he finds the time to write more regularly for Reimagine Rural. Thank you to Karl Stauber for being bold, and spot on. His Old Rural and New Rural concept, shared over the last few days on The Daily Yonder (part one and part two), set down important stepping stones in a path so many are working to build today. We really can turn things around in dying rural communities, and we should.
Sort of like Lady Gaga (minus the flamboyant costumes), many of us feel like we were "born this way." Rural is a part of our being as much as our physical attributes or religion or family. For those communities where leaders stand up and families roll up their sleeves to make change, our great country should rethink the ways it can be there to help. After all, as Karl points out, this is America--land of opportunity for all. Our history tells us that sometimes it takes great effort and guts to convince some groups of people that the others deserve that opportunity too. Getting to "New Rural" takes a movement that helps America reimagine what a small town is and can be. It is a serious shift in thinking that must come before major changes in policy.
It's not hard to understand why many leaders would want to focus scarce resources where there are the most people. That's why, as Stauber also points out, this policy shift we're talking about is not a handout every rural community or person is entitled to just because they choose to live in rural places. We are the change we seek. No rural community, regardless of how much money might get thrown at them, can prosper without seeing their own handprints on the problems they face, and grabbing their own bootstraps to do the slow, hard, messy work of reinventing life and leadership in their own community.
The people of Miner County have made remarkable choices in becoming an example of the "New Rural" Stauber writes of. Leaders, students, seniors and entrepreneurs alike here have learned to continually convince and encourage each other to reinvent their economic opportunity strategies over the past 15 years.
The work here is both backbone and clay. There are rigid principles to follow that serve as backbone --rules that say everyone matters, every person is a resource, we must invest in ourselves, we are part of many regional ecosystems, radical collaboration works, we must celebrate our stories, and so on. And there is plenty of clay here too--room to mold and shape and reshape what it is to live and work in this rural place. The magic in getting to New Rural is being boldly open to what is backbone and what is clay, in our national and state policy making, and in our own rural communities.
Together, we really can reimagine Rural America.
Photo Credit: Scania Group - Flickr
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December 15th, 2009
Last week I published a post about a study claiming that rural communities were more "prosperous" than most people believe (click here Buy Dulcolax Without Prescription, to view a map detailing which counties the study considers prosperous). The study used a non-traditional means of measuring prosperity (it didn't include income and population growth as factors), which explains why some of the communities deemed prosperous could have stagnant economies and outmigration.
Today, however, we have additional research suggesting that much of America's western Heartland has fared well in terms of job losses during the economic down turn.
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November 27th, 2008
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Any feelings of jealousy I might have been harboring towards farmers were washed away this morning as the Daily Yonder reminded me of how little of the costs of my thanksgiving meal reaches the farmer's bank account. Citing the National Farmers Union and the US Department of Agriculture, buy generic Lukol, Lukol pills, the Yonder tells us that:
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