Review of Contemporary Issues for Rural Schools

Abstract

Over the last three decades governments have invested large sums of money in rural areas in an attempt to address issues of educational disadvantage associated with cultural and geographic isolation. As part of a wider investigation into the effects of parent participation in rural schools, the researcher conducted a review of the literature to discover whether such intervention has been successful and to determine the current status of rural education. It appears however, that while on the one hand the issues have been granted a higher profile, there are many enduring issues and new issues have emerged.