Learning to leave: The irony of schooling in a coastal community

By Zane Hamm. 2008

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Challenges Facing Rural Schools: Implications for Gifted Students (2009, neutral): “Parents of some of these students also expect their children to attend college, and they may even accept as inevitable that their children will leave the community in order to obtain suitable employment (Corbett, 2007).”
Understanding the Effects of Rurality and Socioeconomic Status on College Attendance and Institutional Choice in the United States (2017, background): “For both cultural and economic reasons, rural youth are likely to struggle with leaving their community, and for those without the economic means, choice is but a “cruel fiction” (Corbett, 2007, p. 30).”
Rural schools and the highly qualified teacher provision of No Child Left Behind: a critical policy analysis. (2009, background): “If the ethical questions around how rural teachers might prepare children for life after schooling are complex, performing these tasks is even more so (Corbett, 2007).”
Sending off All Your Good Treasures: Rural Schools, Brain-Drain, and Community Survival in the Wake of Economic Collapse (2011, background): “…in the 4For a more in-depth discussion of the gendered nature of rural education and its impacts on brain drain in resource-based communities, see Corbett (2007). the area, and you have to drive up to thirty miles away to see half of ‘em, because Golden Valley encompasses almost half of…”