Welcome to Rural Matters
Welcome to Rural Matters blog. Rural Matters is sponsored by the Rural School and Community Trust.
We'll regularly post news and information, perspective and comment, on issues related to rural education and small schools.
A blog is an interactive web site. That means that anyone with computer access can participate in Rural Matters. We want to hear your perspective and news. Just click on the word "comment" under any post and follow the simple instructions.
By clicking on "comment" you can also read what others are saying on topics of interest.
Rural Matters archives all posts in topical categories. That will make it easier for you to follow topics that are of particular interest to you. In addition, all posts are also archived chronologically by month.
In addition, Rural Matters provides Resource Pages. These topical pages are regularly updated and provide useful links to studies, web sites, and other resources.
Blogging is fun and easy and we want to hear from you. What are you concerns, your joys, your experiences working and living in rural schools and communities? Share them on Rural Matters, we want to hear.
Rural Matters has a number of useful and easy-to-use features.
PERMALINKS. Every post on Rural Matters has it's own unique url--that's the web address. To find the permalink for any post, just click the work "permalink" under the post. This allows you to bookmark or create other kinds of links to specific posts.
BLOG@ruraledu.org. Share your questions or make suggestions via email to blog@ruraledu.org. This is an email link and your suggestions or questions will not show up on Rural Matters.
EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS. If you'd like to get a notification in your email in-box when new posts appear on Rural Matters, just click on "notifications" and follow the simple instructions.
RSS FEEDS. Feeds are another way to be notified about activities that are occurring on Rural Matters. For more information about RSS or to sign up, click on the words "Subscribe to this blog's feed" in the right column of the main Rural Matters page.
LINKS. In the right column of Rural Matters, you'll find links to other websites and other blogs. If you have suggestions for links that should be listed on Rural Matters, email the link and the organization to BLOG@ruraledu.org. We won't guarantee that we'll post your links, but we do want to hear about them.
TrackBacks. TrackBacks show where other bloga have linked to specific posts in Rural Matters.