Rural school settings' distance from urban areas and long commutes can exacerbate the challenges struggling rural schools face¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · qualitative r? · q2
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2020: baselines and conditions change

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Aspects of rural schools' settings, such as distance from urban areas and commutes between schools and homes, can exacerbate the challenges rural schools face. → Linda Rosenberg 2015

Evidence¶

Linda Rosenberg 2015¶

Linda Rosenberg, Megan Davis Christianson, Megan Hague Angus. (2015). Improvement Efforts in Rural Schools: Experience of Nine Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants. Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 90, issue 2. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hpje20/90/2 doi:10.1080/0161956x.2015.1022109

q2 · i? · qualitative · r?

The article's framing of a purposive-sample study of rural SIG schools states that "the distance from urban areas and the commute between the schools and the students' and teachers' homes, can exacerbate the challenges that rural schools face." No effect size is printed.

"However, aspects of rural schools' settings, such as the distance from urban areas and the commute between the schools and the students' and teachers' homes, can exacerbate the challenges that rural schools face."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Rural SIG schools reported additional challenges from remote locations and large catchment areas beyond those reported by nonrural SIG schools — a broader claim this one bears on
• Rural SIG schools perceived transportation access and home-school distance as location-related barriers to parent involvement — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Administrators in eight of nine rural SIG schools reported rural-setting factors, chiefly long teacher commutes (six schools) or isolated communities (four), that hampered teacher recruitment or retention — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Respondents in two of nine rural SIG schools saw transportation costs and catchment size as making it best to increase learning time within the existing schedule rather than extend the school day — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
• Commuting distance, school demographics, and academics play important roles in parents' school choices in Washington, DC — related
• Recruitment and retention of teaching staff is an activity integral to school improvement efforts under SIG, and the article presents findings on it in rural schools — related
• Parents' school choices were constrained by disability-linked safety fears and transportation barriers — related
• School location, distance from home, and transportation logistics constrained which high schools students considered and their ultimate choice — related
• Rural TECTA participants faced distinct barriers including travel burden, limited stipends, inconvenient class timing, technology access, and unclear registration — related
• Limited human capital is one of the biggest challenges in rural school turnaround, making SIG staff-replacement requirements often neither possible nor desirable — related
• The study's generalizability is limited by its rural, small, relatively homogeneous context — related
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