Wide Open Spaces: Schooling in Rural America TodayJeremy Knight
Fourteen percent of the nation’s population lives in rural communities, and one in five K-12 students attends a rural school — a substantial proportion of America’s school population. Despite increased attention from the national education policy community in recent years, too many rural communities and schools continue to struggle to provide their students with quality educational opportunities. Common approaches to education reform that may work in urban communities often fail to take into account the unique assets and challenges facing rural schools.
“Wide Open Spaces: Schooling in Rural America Today” provides education policymakers with a factbase on America’s rural schools and communities: the economic and academic challenges they face, their unique assets, and opportunities for improvement. This resource highlights some of the challenges facing schools and students, including limited economic opportunity, poor access to healthcare, and social challenges like drug addiction. It also provides an overview of available data on student outcomes, including National Assessment of Educational Progress data and graduation rates. These data reveal that while rural students appear to be doing better on average than students in some other geographies, there are real gaps among subgroups and barriers to postsecondary opportunities that hinder many rural students from achieving their full academic potential.
Even so, rural communities’ assets provide opportunities to create and sustain meaningful change. Compared with other geographies, rural communities tend to place high value on civic and community engagement and support tight-knit networks among residents. Community members tend to have a deep sense of and commitment to place that dates back generations. And at a state and national level, rural communities represent a powerful political voice.
“Wide Open Spaces: Schooling in Rural America Today” aims to equip advocates, decision-makers, and other stakeholders with a shared understanding of rural education to generate a more accurate and nuanced policy response.
Education in the American South: Historical Context, Current State, and Futur...Jeremy Knight
The deck provides a detailed analysis of academic outcomes in Southern states, placing them in historical, economic, and political context. It also traces the development of public schools in the South and shows that the modern education reform movement has its roots in the South, where strategies like accountability, charter schools, private school choice, and school governance reform were first piloted.
This newsletter article summarizes the impacts of proposed changes to federal housing subsidies imposed by the Trump administration. This is one of many weekly policy updates I published for the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities.
Wide Open Spaces: Schooling in Rural America TodayJeremy Knight
Fourteen percent of the nation’s population lives in rural communities, and one in five K-12 students attends a rural school — a substantial proportion of America’s school population. Despite increased attention from the national education policy community in recent years, too many rural communities and schools continue to struggle to provide their students with quality educational opportunities. Common approaches to education reform that may work in urban communities often fail to take into account the unique assets and challenges facing rural schools.
“Wide Open Spaces: Schooling in Rural America Today” provides education policymakers with a factbase on America’s rural schools and communities: the economic and academic challenges they face, their unique assets, and opportunities for improvement. This resource highlights some of the challenges facing schools and students, including limited economic opportunity, poor access to healthcare, and social challenges like drug addiction. It also provides an overview of available data on student outcomes, including National Assessment of Educational Progress data and graduation rates. These data reveal that while rural students appear to be doing better on average than students in some other geographies, there are real gaps among subgroups and barriers to postsecondary opportunities that hinder many rural students from achieving their full academic potential.
Even so, rural communities’ assets provide opportunities to create and sustain meaningful change. Compared with other geographies, rural communities tend to place high value on civic and community engagement and support tight-knit networks among residents. Community members tend to have a deep sense of and commitment to place that dates back generations. And at a state and national level, rural communities represent a powerful political voice.
“Wide Open Spaces: Schooling in Rural America Today” aims to equip advocates, decision-makers, and other stakeholders with a shared understanding of rural education to generate a more accurate and nuanced policy response.
Education in the American South: Historical Context, Current State, and Futur...Jeremy Knight
The deck provides a detailed analysis of academic outcomes in Southern states, placing them in historical, economic, and political context. It also traces the development of public schools in the South and shows that the modern education reform movement has its roots in the South, where strategies like accountability, charter schools, private school choice, and school governance reform were first piloted.
This newsletter article summarizes the impacts of proposed changes to federal housing subsidies imposed by the Trump administration. This is one of many weekly policy updates I published for the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities.
Ethnicity and Democracy Findings from Afrobarometer:Round 6 Survey in ZambiaAfrobarometer
In the first release of Afrobarometer findings in Zambia, a majority (74%) say they prefer #democracy to any other kind of government. Find out more in this presentation.
Khunnu Hotel is located in the Sukhbaatar neighborhood in Ulaanbaatar 0.8 miles from Sukhbaatar Square and 0.9 miles from National Museum of Mongolian History. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. Each room is fitted with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. Certain accommodations have a sitting area for your convenience. Enjoy a cup of tea while looking out at the mountains or river. Each room is equipped with a private bathroom with a bathtub or shower and shower with bathrobes slippers and free toiletries provided. A TV with cable channels is provided. You will find a 24-hour front desk at the property. Chinggis Khan Statue is 0.9 miles from Khunnu Hotel and Memorial Museum of Victims of Political Persecution is 1.1 miles away. The nearest airport is Chinggis Khaan International Airport 10 miles from Khunnu Hotel.
VisionsLive Product Overview Presentation 7th September 2015Barry McLeod
Text Chat Focus Groups: The Most Effective Qualitative Method:
Sure, text chat has been around for a while. And in an industry
that is obsessed with the newest and shiniest tools on the
market, often the best ones get overlooked.
Unlike the travel required for in-person work or the technical
requirements involved in webcam focus groups, text chat
lowers the bar of entry for both researcher and participant
and speeds up the research process. In short, it is the fastest
and most effective way to gather qualitative insights.
Advertising research
Brand research
Website evaluations
Product evaluation
Service evaluation
Testing business ideas
Business start-up research
Consumer groups
Ethnicity and Democracy Findings from Afrobarometer:Round 6 Survey in ZambiaAfrobarometer
In the first release of Afrobarometer findings in Zambia, a majority (74%) say they prefer #democracy to any other kind of government. Find out more in this presentation.
Khunnu Hotel is located in the Sukhbaatar neighborhood in Ulaanbaatar 0.8 miles from Sukhbaatar Square and 0.9 miles from National Museum of Mongolian History. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. Each room is fitted with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. Certain accommodations have a sitting area for your convenience. Enjoy a cup of tea while looking out at the mountains or river. Each room is equipped with a private bathroom with a bathtub or shower and shower with bathrobes slippers and free toiletries provided. A TV with cable channels is provided. You will find a 24-hour front desk at the property. Chinggis Khan Statue is 0.9 miles from Khunnu Hotel and Memorial Museum of Victims of Political Persecution is 1.1 miles away. The nearest airport is Chinggis Khaan International Airport 10 miles from Khunnu Hotel.
VisionsLive Product Overview Presentation 7th September 2015Barry McLeod
Text Chat Focus Groups: The Most Effective Qualitative Method:
Sure, text chat has been around for a while. And in an industry
that is obsessed with the newest and shiniest tools on the
market, often the best ones get overlooked.
Unlike the travel required for in-person work or the technical
requirements involved in webcam focus groups, text chat
lowers the bar of entry for both researcher and participant
and speeds up the research process. In short, it is the fastest
and most effective way to gather qualitative insights.
Advertising research
Brand research
Website evaluations
Product evaluation
Service evaluation
Testing business ideas
Business start-up research
Consumer groups
The Michid offers accommodations in Ulaanbaatar. Guests can enjoy the on-site restaurant. Free private parking is available on site. You will find a kettle in the room. You will find a 24-hour front desk at the property. Ulaanbaatar Opera House is 0.9 miles from Michid and National Museum of Mongolian History is 1.2 miles away. The nearest airport is Chinggis Khaan International Airport 7 miles from Michid.
Census data can provide a unique picture of local communities, by providing information on indicators such as household income levels, the age and education-level of a population, the race and ethnic makeup of a community and how a population has changed over time. This type of information is particularly useful when trying to write a grant proposal to demonstrate the need for resources within a community, or when trying to assess the needs and issues of a community. This session will explain how to access census information and use it to create maps and graphics to visualize the information being written about in proposal submissions.
Regional Snapshot: 2019 Federal Opportunity ZonesARCResearch
This month's regional snapshot reviews the Federal Opportunity Zones program - what it is, which communities have received the designation, and how those communities compare to their county and the region as a whole.
Education in the American South: Historical Context, Current State, and Futur...Jeremy Knight
The deck provides a detailed analysis of academic outcomes in Southern states, placing them in historical, economic, and political context. It also traces the development of public schools in the South and shows that the modern education reform movement has its roots in the South, where strategies like accountability, charter schools, private school choice, and school governance reform were first piloted.
Education in the American South: Historical Context, Current State, and Futur...Jeremy Knight
The deck provides a detailed analysis of academic outcomes in Southern states, placing them in historical, economic, and political context. It also traces the development of public schools in the South and shows that the modern education reform movement has its roots in the South, where strategies like accountability, charter schools, private school choice, and school governance reform were first piloted.
Do Metro Atlanta Residents Have Access to Jobs & Amenities?ARCResearch
This month we ask a simple question: Do metro Atlanta residents have access to jobs, services and amenities? This question is important as the way we design communities has a strong impact on quality of life. Is housing affordable near where one works? Are transportation costs eating away at whatever savings realized by an affordable home further away from job centers?
Paul Overberg of USA Today presents "Finding stories in Bureau of Labor Statistics data," part of a free, multi-session workshop sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism in Louisville, Ky.
For more information on free training for journalists, please visit businessjournalism.org.
A beginner's guide to understanding poverty in America and what can be done about it. Great resource for those just learning about poverty and justice.
Tri-State Regional Workforce Alliance, Economic Report, 2016 UpdateLucas Stewart
Final regional economic report prepared for the Southeast Tennessee Development District and Tri-State Regional Workforce Alliance, Inc. as part of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Smart Communities Initiative.
July 21, 2021
NCompass Live - http://nlc.nebraska.gov/NCompassLive/
Introduction to U.S. Census Bureau Data Products and Tools, American Community Survey Concepts and Profiles, and new data access platform data.census.gov. The purpose of this informational data session is to acquaint organizations to Census data tools and data.census.gov. By the end of the presentation, participants will be able to access Quick Facts, American Community Survey (ACS) Narrative Profile, and Data Social/Economic Profiles, which provides quick and easy access to select statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Presenter: Blanca E. Ramirez-Salazar, Partnership Specialist, Dallas Regional Census Center/Field Division/Denver Region, U.S. Census Bureau.
1. Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama
Tuskegee, Macon County is located in South Central Alabama. The county seat is
Tuskegee, Alabama. The county has a population of 19,688 and Tuskegee has a
population of 9,035.
2. History of Tuskegee, Alabama: Success Stories in Economic and Community Development
5. Highest percentage of African American Ancestry in the
US Predominately still reside in the Black Belt Region of
the US (Purple)
6. The USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) has defined counties as being persistently poor ifThe USDA Economic Research Service (ERS) has defined counties as being persistently poor if
20 percent or more of their populations were living in poverty over the last 30 years20 percent or more of their populations were living in poverty over the last 30 years
(measured by the 1980, 1990, and 2000 decennial censuses and the 2007-11 American(measured by the 1980, 1990, and 2000 decennial censuses and the 2007-11 American
Community Survey).Community Survey).
7. 252 Persistent
Poverty Counties in the US are in the South
“Using this definition, there were 353 persistently poor counties in the United States. The large majority (301)
of the persistent-poverty counties were nonmetropolitan (non-metro) and exhibited a strong regional pattern.
There are no non-metro persistent-poverty counties in the Northeast, 29 non-metro persistent-poverty
counties in the Midwest, and 20 in the West. The remaining 252 non-metro persistent-poverty counties are in
the South, comprising just over 26 percent of the total Southern non-metro population.” The Birmingham
News calls it this Blackbelt Region in Alabama, “Alabama’s Third World”. Macon County’s percentage of the
population below the Poverty level is in excess of 30%, persistently, and one of 5 counties in Alabama with
poverty rates consistently this high.
10. Macon County Economic Data
Primary Employment Industries
Educational, health and social services (37.9%), Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food
services (12.9%), Manufacturing (10.6%).
Type of Workers
Private wage or salary:71%
Government: 24%
Self-employed, not incorporated: 5%
Unpaid family work: 0%
Household Demographics
Housing
12. Economic Development Districts for Tuskegee,
Macon County, Alabama
Appalachian Regional Commission
Delta Regional Authority
Alabama Development Authority
South Central Alabama Regional Commission
13. Appalachian Regional Commission
Macon County is one of 90 Depressed Counties of the
Appalachia Region
• The employment/population ratio;
• Poverty rate;
• Per-capita market income;
• Percent of the adult population (25 + years old)
with at least one-year of college education,
and/or percent with at least a four-year college
degree; and,
• Ten-year percent change in population.
Depressed County Index
14. Delta Regional Authority’s Local
Development Districts. Macon County is
part of Alabama, Region 5
Delta Regional Authority
Delta Regional Authority Area Map of
Depressed Counties
To be deemed distressed, counties and parishes must meet
one of the following criteria:
•An unemployment rate of one percent higher (9.8 percent)
than the national average (8.8 percent) for the most recent
24-month period; or
•Have a per capita income of 80 percent or less of the national
per capita income.
Delta Region Depressed County Index
15. Macon County is one of 20 of 67 total Counties in Alabama that are part of Delta
Regional Authority and Alabama Development Commission, Region 5, The South
Central Regional Development Commission (SCADC). SCADC, which is composed of 7
Alabama Counties, is one of 12 Regions of the Alabama Development Commission.
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