When “College and Career Ready” Means Only (or Mostly) College Ready: Perspectives from Stakeholders in Six Rural and Small Communities
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2021
Abstract
This study of rural stakeholders’ perspectives related to college and career readiness exposes a nuanced dynamic that extends beyond pragmatic concerns for preparing rural students for the future. As college preparatory courses “crowded out” Career and Technical Education (CTE) offerings, stakeholders voiced a concomitant sense of losing something they described as real-life, relevant, and rural. Viewing extra-local policy as deforming local schooling and disembedding it from the community, stakeholders in the six rural and small school districts studied appear to be confined by three forms of binary thinking in their effort to provide a rural-responsive education.
Publication Information
Budge, Kathleen; Wargo, Elizabeth; Carr-Chellman, David; and Canfield-Davis, Kathy. (2021). "When “College and Career Ready” Means Only (or Mostly) College Ready: Perspectives from Stakeholders in Six Rural and Small Communities". Leadership and Policy in Schools, 20(4), 543-562. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2019.1696371