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Rural Matters

Dec 19, 2017

John has a lively discussion with Jim Dachos, director of education partnerships at The Virtual High School (VHS), a non-profit organization in Massachusetts. VHS works with more than 700 schools and has a catalogue of about 200 courses, which includes AP offerings and courses for middle schools. The VHS model differs...


Dec 12, 2017

John has an extremely informative discussion with Tom Morris, Associate Administrator for Rural Health in the Human Resources and Services Administration at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Rural Americans are dying at an earlier age and at a higher rate than urban Americans, notes Morris, and also...


Nov 30, 2017

John chats up Randy Smith, whose organization, the Rural Community College Alliance, represents 2/3 of all community colleges in the United States, and 1/3 of all community college students in the country. Smith described some of the challenges facing rural community colleges, including the commute to the college,...


Nov 9, 2017

Recorded live from the recent Virginia Rural Health Association’s 2017 Rural Health Providers Conference, John chats up Summer Sage, president of the VRHA Board of Directors, and two keynote speakers — Robert Pack, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Community and Behavioral Health at East...


Oct 30, 2017

John chats with Kari Oyen, assistant professor of School psychology at the University of South Dakota and president of the South Dakota Association of School Psychologists about mental health issues in rural America and the role of school psychologists.  According to Oyen, because of the lack of resources in many rural...