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

Student Success

This Committee addresses issues that affect a student’s chances for success in elementary and secondary education, with special emphasis on secondary education. "Success" is defined simply as getting through to graduation, meeting state and local academic standards and prepared to continue to learn in institutions of higher education or in the workplace.

We are especially concerned for those who are at high risk of failure because of disadvantages they bring with them to school, and because of the incapacity of the school to respond adequately to those disadvantages. But we are generally concerned with all students who do not earn a high school diploma that represents a level of achievement that prepares them for productive and fulfilling lives after high school.

We cannot address all of the issues that bear on this area of policy concern. We choose to focus on several:
  • Assessment and the Achievement Gap
  • Teacher Education
  • Discipline
  • Disproportional Identification for Special Education
  • English Language Learners

Read draft of Student Success Committee.

Posted by NREPA Webmaster at 5:21 PM

3 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 15, 2009 at 8:39 AM

    Well, my comment is that student success is not a good thing if it produces knowledge without character (borrowed from Gandhi).

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2009 at 3:14 PM

    i totally agree with the section about "Urban Bias in Teacher Education"...i am pursuing my PhD and preparing to teacher pre-service teachers...I see the emphasis on urban reform and no mentioning of rural schools...my question is where is the research to back this up? unless I missed it you did not cite any articles from the field in that section...i think citations would give this very real problem more "legs" and validity when presenting this paper to others in the education field

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 11, 2009 at 9:58 AM

    Measuring student success is more than achievement. In the words of our educational forebears, it is all about life adjustment, in today's terms, working with students so they are healthy, active in the community, working to create transparent politics, contributing to the economy, and respecting the environment -- in short, they are working for sustainability.

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