As the official journal of the National Rural Education Association, The Rural Educator serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among the rural education community. The journal aims to provide a greater understanding of the strengths and needs of rural education and to provide rural educators with resources that support their work.
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Current Issue: Volume 45, Number 4 (2024) Special Topics Issue on Rural Multilingual Education
From the Editors
Introduction to the Special Topics Issue on Rural Multilingual Education
Maria Coady and Diego Román
Research Articles
Aspirational Mexican American Parenting in the Rural South: Multilingualism, Hard Work, and the Middle Class
Alma D. Stevenson and Scott Beck
Curriculum Inquiry to Strengthen Teacher Preparation for Supporting Multilingual Learners in Rural Settings
Christiana K. Kfouri and Marjorie W. Rowe
Multilingual Educators in Superdiverse Rural Schools: Placing Administrators and Teachers’ Cultural and Linguistic Wealth at the Center of Rural Education
Carla Paciotto and Gloria A. Delany-Barmann
Rural Undergraduate Students’ Narratives of English Language Learning Within Multilingual Classroom Contexts: A Namibian Perspective
Annaly M. Strauss and Joanne M. Marshall