Document Type
Section V Article
Abstract
Rural students in the 90's will probably continue to experience losses and changes in their assumptions about rural life, their communities, local institutions, their families, and their futures. In all likelihood, structural changes in rural communities will continue at an accelerated pace because of the financial losses experienced during the farm crisis. The ability to fund local services through the local tax base has been eroded by the agricultural losses and the migration of the rural population. It does not appear that funding from other sources will be available to make up for those losses. As a result, one of the effects of the eroded local tax base and the declining rural population of child-bearing age, will be the closing and consolidation of rural school systems. When rural schools are closed or consolidate, one of the questions that needs to be asked is, how will this affect the emotional well-being of students and their ability to focus on their future?
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
1
Issue
1
First Page
86
Last Page
87
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
Van Arb, Jan
(1990)
"Section V: Meeting Student Needs in Rural Education [Von Arb],"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 1:
No.
1, Article 33.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol1/iss1/33
