National Center for Rural Education Research Networks

The Center is led by Director of Research Initiatives for College and Career Success Elise Swanson with Principal Investigators Thomas Kane, Douglas Staiger, and Christopher Avery with an advisory board of rural education and regional experts.

In collaboration with our network partners, we test, replicate, and share promising rural educational interventions.

Over five years, the Center has conducted research studies with rural partners, sharing findings and best practices from these studies with the goal of bringing new evidence and resources to bear in the field of rural education.