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Colorado's rural districts are a major part of the state's 178 school districts yet only comprise 20 percent of the total student population in the state. While these rural school districts often have small student populations, they represent critical aspects of Colorado's education system.
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2012.
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The Colorado Department of Education (CDE) sought to better understand blended learning in rural areas of Colorado, why fewer opportunities exist in rural areas than in urban and suburban areas, and what changes could help create opportunities for all Colorado students. Research methods included a literature review, survey of rural districts, and phone interviews with a subset of survey respondents. Eighty-four percent of survey respondents reported...
13) Leaving Microsoft to change the world: an entrepreneur's odyssey to educate the world's children
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Pub. Date
c2006
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"He discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work - not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s - but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had told him, "If you get high enough in the mountains, you...
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c2002
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"In the Four Corners region of rural southwest Colorado sits a one-room schoolhouse that holds the center of attention among the local residents of McElmo Canyon. Not so long ago, most of the children attending Battle Rock Charter School, first through sixth grade, were related. Most of their parents still earned a living either ranching or farming; many of their homes were still heated only by wood-burning stoves; they traveled to school on the single...
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[2021]
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"Rural life is more complex than it is perhaps credited. This edited volume explores several themes that highlight these complexities, particularly in terms of what they imply for rural teaching and learning. Such themes include the geographic, demographic, and socioeconomic diversity within and across rural communities; the notion that rurality is not a deficit but rather a context; and the array of novel and interesting ways to build upon rural...
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