The Challenges of Educating the Gifted in Rural Areas
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The Challenges of Educating the Gifted in Rural Areas - Joan Lewis
THE PRACTICAL STRATEGIES SERIES
IN GIFTED EDUCATION
series editors
FRANCES A. KARNES & KRISTEN R. STEPHENS
The Challenges of Educating
the Gifted in Rural Areas
Joan D. Lewis, Ph.D.
PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Copyright ©2009 by Frances A. Karnes
and Kristen R. Stephens-Kozak
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ISBN-13: 978-1-59363-772-9
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Contents
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Defining Rural
Challenges and Perspectives
Benefits and Accommodations
Adapting Traditional Gifted Education for Rural Settings
Conclusion
Resources
References
About the Author
Series Preface
The Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education offers teachers, counselors, administrators, parents, and other interested parties up-to-date instructional techniques and information on a variety of issues pertinent to the field of gifted education. Each guide addresses a focused topic and is written by an individual with authority on the issue. Several guides have been published. Among the titles are:
Acceleration Strategies for Teaching Gifted Learners
Curriculum Compacting: An Easy Start to Differentiating for High-Potential Students
Enrichment Opportunities for Gifted Learners
Independent Study for Gifted Learners
Motivating Gifted Learners
Questioning Strategies for Teaching the Gifted
Social & Emotional Teaching Strategies
Using Media & Technology with Gifted Students
For a current listing of available guides within the series, please contact Prufrock Press at 800-998-2208 or visit http://www.prufrock.com.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Thomas Godfrey for his assistance in all phases of assembling this volume. The sample rows from parallel menu activities for typical and gifted students developed by Stacey Gibbs were used with permission. Her willingness to share her work with others is gratefully appreciated.
Introduction
Providing a high standard of education for our rural as well as urban students has been this country’s intent, but often we have failed to achieve this goal. A number of factors have made guaranteeing educational equality for all students, regardless of location, more of a work-in-progress than a reality. The reasons for the failure of our resolve have been well documented, but increasingly evidence has accumulated that favors rural classroom innovations as opportunities for achieving educational success, despite apparent obstacles.
Awareness of rural education’s ingenuity in accomplishing much with very little budgetary support for curricular improvement has begun to take root in the educational community. There are important reasons for this new focus on rural education. More than 40% of all American schools are in rural areas and 30% of all students attend rural schools
(National Research Center on Rural Education Support [NRCRES], 2005, para. 2). The poorest rural populations are in the poorest states [which are] least able to afford the cost of an adequate education
(Johnson & Strange, 2007, p. vi). These statistics highlight the need for paying attention to rural education. The links between low incomes and poverty, reduced level of education, and small towns/rural areas are even greater for families of minority groups (Colangelo, Assouline, & New, 1999). Even though states with the highest percentage of culturally diverse students must provide for the highest percentage of public elementary students taking advantage of the federally funded free and reduced lunch program
(Colangelo et al., 1999, p. 44), some modest redirection of state resources could incentivize teaching innovation in and outside classrooms.
Rural education has gained respectful attention for a variety of reasons, despite the absence of uniform funding-allocation formulas among state legislatures. School enrollments have increased substantially in communities of 2,500 and under while larger communities have witnessed a decrease in students (Johnson & Strange, 2007). In fact, the 12 most populous states account for almost 50% of rural enrollees. The nation has denied proportionate financial support to small-town education in favor of urban or large suburban communities. Inequities of salary and benefits in smaller districts are slowly being addressed, but disparities still exist,