A growing portion of high school equivalency test-takers in Missouri seem to be high-performing students, pursuing GEDs and similar tests not as a last resort, but as a strategic choice.
Nick Fouriezos
Open Campus national reporter covering the role of college in rural America.
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What a New PBS Doc Reveals About Advising’s Value
A Q&A with Nicole Hurd, founder of College Advising Corps and Lafayette College President
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What happens when you tell an 8th grader they aren’t college material?
And other questions worth asking about dual enrollment.
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How rural portraits led Utah’s education shift
This issue of Mile Markers centers how rural portraits led Utah’s educational shift through Postcards of rodeo royalty and pig farms.
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Rural research at risk under Trump
Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign led to a surge in rural attention, research, and support over the last decade, but his second presidency could bring that progress to a sudden halt.
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Rethinking everything to better capture rural success
In this Q&A, Tim Knowles outlines how Carnegie is re-examining our education system.
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How rural towns can tap their flagship
Indiana University’s Center for Rural Engagement is helping rural communities around the state.
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Is college the future of farming?
Farm workers adapt to new technology in the dusty Central Valley of California.
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Texas has big goals for college completion. In places like Coastal Bend, how to get there is still murky.
Few adults have a college degree in this largely rural and mostly Hispanic region. That has consequences for the local economy and residents’ earning power.
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Why rural students feel like it’s ‘easy to write us off’
As budget cuts continue across the nation, rural frustration sets in.