This article highlights the rise and geographic spread of depopulation in rural America over
the past century.“Depopulation” refers to chronic population losses that prevent counties …

The college-going rates of rural students lag behind those of more urban students, a gap
likely due, in part, to rural students' lower educational aspirations. These lower aspirations …

SHERMAN & SAGE 2 college graduates make up 16 percent of rural residents who stay in
their communities, compared to 43 percent of those who leave. People with a high school …

We argue here that critical educational scholarship is crucial to developing educational
analysis attuned to the nuances of place, mobility, and change in rural locations. Critical …

The boomtown impact model developed by researchers in the 1970s implicitly assumes a
spatially concentrated, finite resource will be extracted during a near-singular event (ie the" …

In the often polarized discussions over immigration, the point is sometimes missed that
immigration often brings immediate and tangible benefits. Nowhere is this truer than in the …

The past two decades have ushered in a period of widespread spatial diffusion of Hispanics
well beyond traditional metropolitan gateways. This article examines emerging patterns of …

While the overwhelming majority of Americans are homeowners, there are more than 17
million people living in rental housing in small towns and rural places. Home to a wide …

Research and journalistic accounts on the Rust Belt consistently focus on population decline
and its consequences. As a result, we know little about the growing trend of return migration …

Using in-depth interviews with women engaged in sustainable farming in the western United
States, this project explores an unanticipated finding: migration from an urban area to rural …