Document Type
Issue Area Three
Abstract
Our founding fathers, exposed as they had been to the inequities of a Europe that reserved education for the elite, placed a major emphasis on public education. Indeed America was the pioneer in many areas of equalizing opportunity by providing public schooling from kindergarten through high school as well as subsidizing higher education via such programs as the land grant schools. The private sector also generously empowered the masses through education by such means as Carnegie libraries.
Rural areas have always been at a disadvantage, however, due to their lack of resources and distance from the centers of power, whether they be governmental, financial, or cultural. Our libraries are smaller, news media are minimal. fewer celebrities come to speak; the pool of knowledge, that accumulation of the sum experience and education of our residents, is lesser. As knowledge grows exponentially, the gap widens. We are not on the main line, at the core or "in the loop."
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
5
Issue
3
First Page
56
Last Page
58
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1995 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Edgar, Gerald A.
(1995)
"Technology Helps Close Information Gap in Rural Areas,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 5:
No.
3, Article 20.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol5/iss3/20
