No two schools are the same. One of the differentiators between school districts is the urban versus rural divide. Each school faces challenges, but the hurdles that rural school districts face are ...

Dreama Gentry met Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, a much-lauded nonprofit that supports youth from birth ...

Part 1 of 3By Caryl DierksenHome & HarvestYour parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents may have attended one. You might ...

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The 48-year-old has dedicated nearly three decades of his life to transforming the lives of rural children through education ...

After adjusting rural education levels to match those of urban areas, the gap in healthy life expectancy was cut nearly in half. However, disparities existed even within each educational group ...

In 2010, Dreama Gentry met Geoffrey Canada, founder of Harlem Children’s Zone, a much-lauded nonprofit that supports youth from birth through college in a roughly 100-block area of central Harlem.

A breakthrough came that year when Gentry’s group — today called Partners for Rural Impact, or PRI — received a Promise Neighborhood grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The federal ...

The program was an inspiration for Gentry, who had launched a college-access program in rural eastern Kentucky about a decade earlier. “We realized that college access actually starts at birth ...