About the National Rural Education Policy Agenda

Over 100 rural education activists from all across the country have helped draft five position papers on national rural education policy. You can have a hand in drafting them, too.

The process of developing a National Rural Education Policy Agenda from the grassroots up was launched at the 2008 Rural Education Working Group Conference in Tuskegee, Alabama. Five committees were commissioned to draft reports.

Click the titles of the posts below to read each draft report. To add a comment, scroll down this page to the Comments section (rather than on the report itself) and add your voice to the discussion.

The committees will review comments and consider changes before finalizing their report. If you want to join the committee, just say so in your comment.

The reports will be presented and debated at the 2009 REWG meeting April 19-21 at Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina.

Get started now! Rural America needs your ideas, too.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Community Revitalization

There’s a real need to engage local people to be problem solvers and provide them with the resources to do so. Help people help themselves. Leadership development is desperately needed—changing perceptions about who can be a leader in local communities, and providing the necessary skills.

Read draft of Community Revitalization Committee.
Posted by NREPA Webmaster at 5:11 PM

4 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2009 at 10:04 AM

    Schools leaders need to see themselves and their schools as active participants in community revitalization. They need to build the community to make it a place where students want to stay.

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  2. AnonymousJune 18, 2010 at 3:39 PM

    They also need to see themselves as protecting of the individuality of each student and help each student have a voice in not accepting the status quo. They also need to teach freedom from oppression is achieved by independence.

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  3. AnonymousJune 18, 2011 at 12:48 PM

    hi

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  4. digital certificatesJune 21, 2011 at 2:21 AM

    I agree with Nrepa that There’s a real need to engage local people to be problem solvers and provide them with the resources to do so. Help people help themselves. Leadership development is desperately needed.This way only we can solve the problem

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