Uncovering the Productivity Promise of Rural Education (The SEA of the Future, 4)

"The first three volumes of the SEA of the Future provided new mindsets and strategies for advancing productivity in state education agencies. In this volume, the authors show why rural schools and districts are uniquely poised to contribute to these efforts. Like their urban counterparts, rural schools and districts are being asked to stretch their dollars further but they are more likely to face limited economies of scale, difficult teacher labor markets, and inadequate access to time and money-saving technologies. And, while rural schools and districts educate millions of American students, they do so with less support and attention than their urban and suburban counterparts."