Goldie Blumenstyk takes the report Why Rural Matters, 2018-2019: The Time Is Now from the Rural School and Community Trust as a starting point for her discussion of lagging achievement by rural students. Rural students tend to be from poorer families, they don't have easy access to resources like libraries and broadband internet, and even if they do succeed, it's not clear that there are employment opportunities using their new skills back home. Not all of this can be addressed with broadband, but a lot can be - if I had decent broadband in the small town where I like I could much more easily forge a high-tech career here, without having to drive into the city every day. The same is even more true the more rural you get. Image: Third Way, Broadband for All.
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