In an effort to improve schools in rural communities in New York and Ohio, the U.S. Department of Education awarded $10 million to Harvard University to launch the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks. The programs will serve the 650,000 students attending rural schools within the two states. Cornell partnered with Harvard last year to access these rural schools for the study, Sipple said, and Harvard will run the center for the next five years until the study’s completion. Although Cornell plays a large role in this research, Ithaca will not participate as the district does not qualify as rural according to federal rules. However, Sipple hopes “that [local schools] will benefit from what we learn because they do have rural students from rural communities attending their schools.”

Source: Daily Sun February 18, 2019 05:03 UTC