Rural tutors.Students in small and rural schools in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (pĕnsəlvā`nyə), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States. It is bordered by New Jersey, across the Delaware River (E), Delaware (SE), Maryland (S), West Virginia (SW), Ohio (W), and Lake Erie and New York , Ohio and Georgia Georgia, country, Asia Georgia (jôr`jə), Georgian Sakartvelo, Rus. Gruziya, officially Republic of Georgia, republic (2005 est. pop. 4,677,000), c.26,900 sq mi (69,700 sq km), in W Transcaucasia. will reap benefits from a new $5 million grant to develop a national model for increasing educational opportunities for such schools. The Association of Education Service Agencies and Catapult catapult (kăt`əpŭlt'), mechanism used to throw missiles in ancient and medieval warfare. At first, catapults were specifically designed to shoot spears or other missiles at a low trajectory (see bow and arrow). Learning, a provider of education services, has been awarded the five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement. The main goal is to establish a streamlined contracting and purchasing system so small and rural districts have greater access to high quality supplemental instructional programs, or SES, under NCLB NCLB No Child Left Behind (US education initiative) . This has been a challenge for such schools. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion