Section III: Effective Rural Schools: What We Know, What We Need to Know [Dreier]

Authors

William Dreier, University of Northern Iowa

Document Type

Section III Article

Abstract

In the USA, rural education is the informal and formal learning occurring to infants, children, youth and adults living in the open country, farms, villages, towns, and other places located outside the many Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas. Informal learning takes place in the home, work place, school, and community. Formal learning takes place in the classes provided by churches and non-public schools and in the local public school districts. By far, the largest number of schools and local school districts include non-urban villages and towns. These rural areas, whose population centers are fewer than 2,500 people, include about one-third of all the children and youth enrolled in public education in the USA, and is where rural education, formal and informal, takes place.

Journal Title

Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series

Volume

1

Issue

1

First Page

29

Last Page

29

Publisher

Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa

City

Cedar Falls, IA

Copyright

©1990 North Central Regional Educational Laboratory and the University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Dreier, William (1990) "Section III: Effective Rural Schools: What We Know, What We Need to Know [Dreier]," Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 1: No. 1, Article 13.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol1/iss1/13