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Focus On
Rural
Education
Rural education can expec special attention in th< coming year, according to thi February 1979 issue of th< Virginia School Board: Association newsletter.
In a guest editorial, Bei Brodinsky, former schoo board member and notet education writer, predict: that “neglect of rural school: may begin to wind down.”
He attributes the rebirth o interest in rural education tc several factors:
—One third of all U. S high school students are ir rural schools.
—More than 11,000 schoo districts, two-thirds of the nation’s total, are in non metropolitan areas.
—Large numbers of rura families are at or below the poverty level with the nation’s highest rates of illiteracy malnutrition, unemployment and substandard housing.
—Five per cent of all rura school-age children are not ir school, a non-enrollment rate twice that of urban areas according to the Nationa Rural Center.
Brodinsky reports that efforts are already underway to set up machinery for rural education in the Department of Health Education and Welfare. "And the issue tc watch is whether school boards in nonmetropolitar areas will make new efforts on behalf of boys and girls from farms, villages and small towns,” he concludes.
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