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The Annenberg Rural Challenge was founded in July 1995 when a grant of $46.75 million was given by the Annenberg Challenge to study and implement school reform in rural America. [1] The Rural Challenge in turn gave hundreds of grants to rural communities in the United States. In 1999, the Annenberg Rural Challenge transitioned from grantmaking ...
The value placed on education is largely a combination of the parent's education level and the visual returns on education in the community the family lives in. Sub-urban families tend to have parents with a much larger amount of education than families in rural and inner-city locations.
The National Rural Education Association (NREA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the interests of schools and educators in rural and sparsely-populated areas of the United States. The NREA is a membership organization that operates as a tax-exempt , non-profit entity. [ 1 ]
The Rural Schools Collaborative manages 17 regional hubs in the United States, running several rural education initiatives. Mississippi was the organization's 17th and newest regional hub.
The rural poor's access to land can be improved by redistributing land from large farms above a certain size, government legislation that challenges some traditional land systems that keep land concentrated in the hands of a few, and settlement schemes which involves providing poor rural families parcels of newly developed or government owned land.
The term rural development is not limited to issues of developing countries. In fact many developed countries have very active rural development programs. [citation needed] Rural development aims at finding ways to improve rural lives with the participation of rural people themselves, so as to meet the required needs of rural communities. [20]
Rural development [2] and finance [3] attempt to solve larger challenges within rural economics. These economic issues are often connected to the migration from rural areas due to lack of economic activities [4] and rural poverty.
Danbom, David B. Born in the Country: A History of Rural America (3rd ed. 1995) online; focus on economics of farming. Danbom, David B. "Rural education reform and the country life movement, 1900-1920." Agricultural History 53.2 (1979): 462-474. online; Dant, Sara. Losing Eden: An Environmental History of the American West. (U of Nebraska Press ...