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Rural Education in America is an advocacy text created to promote and improve education in rural America. The authors provide important insights into why rural students don't go to college, which includes the tendency of students to stay in their rural communities. This book is an important contribution to rural education and provides more current information relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic. --Teachers College Record Geoff and Sky Marietta set out to correct common misunderstandings about rural communities, highlighting their assets and strengths, and offering some direction for rural schools, and they successfully achieve this goal. For scholars and laypeople alike who seek to better understand rural areas, and the role that schools play in these communities, Rural Education in America is a recommended and worthwhile read. --Journal School of Choice

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Geoff Marietta is the entrepreneur-in-residence at the University of the Cumberlands, and the former executive director of Pine Mountain Settlement School. Sky Marietta is an assistant professor at the University of the Cumberlands, where she directs the Academic Resource Center.

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