More rural parents are choosing to teach their children at home, especially in the West. Their reasons for homeschooling include educational excellence, practical training, religious convictions, and many other motivations.

The Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire is tracking 2009 high school graduates from Coos County, New Hampshire. These recent grads say their biggest worry is finding a job or a career.

I write this article not out of dissatisfaction with my life as a professor, but because I think the Land Grant universities are drifting away from their mission of providing help and education for common people like my family and me.

When it comes to education, the rich are getting richer, as people with college degrees flock to a small number of U.S. counties.