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Why Rural Matters 2018-2019: The Time Is Now: Interview With Authors Jerry Johnson, Daniel Showalter, And Sara Hartman, Erin Mchenry-Sorber Dec 2019

Why Rural Matters 2018-2019: The Time Is Now: Interview With Authors Jerry Johnson, Daniel Showalter, And Sara Hartman, Erin Mchenry-Sorber

The Rural Educator

TRE editor Erin McHenry-Sorber recently spoke with three of the authors of the biennial report on the status of rural education published by the Rural School and Community Trust in partnership with the College Board and AASA: The School Superintendents’ Organization. Why Rural Matters 2018-2019 The Time is Now examines the state of rural education in each of the 50 states in the United States. The authors describe the significance of the report and its implications for policy and practice.


Adapting An Elementary School Nutrition Context Assessment For High School Settings And Students, Deborah H. John, Beret Halverson, Tia H. Ho Oct 2019

Adapting An Elementary School Nutrition Context Assessment For High School Settings And Students, Deborah H. John, Beret Halverson, Tia H. Ho

Journal of Human Sciences and Extension

The school nutrition context is comprised of supportive environmental features, programs, policies, and social relationships that shape students’ healthy dietary choices and patterns. When engaging students as change agents, advocates, and partners in making healthy nutrition choices easier, environmental assessment tools developed for adults may be too complex or inappropriately tailored for youth. Adolescents need practical, user-tailored tools that reliably measure the food and beverage environments they encounter in school to inform youth-led changes to the school nutrition context. To meet this need, an evidence-based school environmental assessment was adapted for use in high schools by students as evaluators. Cooperative …


A Summary And Critique Of The Section 5005 Report On Rural Education: Final Report, Devon Brenner Feb 2019

A Summary And Critique Of The Section 5005 Report On Rural Education: Final Report, Devon Brenner

The Rural Educator

A Summary and Critique of the Section 5005 Report on Rural Education: Final Report