Across communities in Wisconsin, young people are sounding a warning: Their mental health is struggling. Half of Wisconsin high schoolers reported feeling anxious, a third depressed and a fifth ...

Students at the Exeter School District in southwest Missouri hop on the bus to head home after the school day ends on Dec. 12, 2024. Urban and suburban school districts may have a funding and staffing ...

More than 1 of every 10 charter schools in the country operate in rural areas, and their numbers could rise. Two states—Montana and North Dakota—recently passed laws to authorize charters and the two ...

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 4, Growing Up Rural: How Place Shapes Life Outcomes (MAY 2022), pp. 155-182 (28 pages) Wealth ownership is a critical ...

The Public Broadcasting Service will survive - in some form - no matter how the Senate votes this week on a bill aimed at eliminating the $1.1 billion in federal funding allotted for public media over ...

For about a century – from after the Civil War through, in some places, the 1960s or so – one-room education was the bedrock of rural Ozarks communities. Kids focused on learning basics like reading, ...

It’s just shy of a mile and a small hill from my parents’ driveway to their closest neighbors’ driveway in rural North Dakota. Close enough to hear each other hollering at the kids or the cattle, but ...

As a family doctor practicing in the small Kansas town of Fredonia, Jennifer McKenney juggles a far wider range of duties than her urban counterparts typically do. She provides colonoscopies to her ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Many high school seniors are currently in the midst of the college application process or are already waiting to hear back from their selected schools. For high school students in ...

For about a century – from after the Civil War through, in some places, the 1960s or so – one-room education was the bedrock of rural Ozarks communities. Kids focused on learning basics like reading, ...