Special Report: Role of Education offers insight into challenges facing rural America
January 2005

A special report released by the Southern Rural Development Center offers insight into the important and often fragile relationship between rural schools and communities in America. The Role of Education: Promoting the Economic and Social Vitality of Rural America, a 72-page full-color publication, is the result of more than three years of research conducted in partnership by the SRDC, the USDA Economic Research Service and the Rural School and Community Trust.