The National Rural Education Association (NREA) has opened the NREA Foundation Essay Contest for 2018.

The Indiana Small and Rural Schools has a rich history of participation and having at least one winner and/or runner up representing our state nearly every year for the past 7 years.

This is an excellent opportunity for our Indiana schools to participation in a national event in which we know that we can compete and compete well!  Our members are asked to encourage their schools and their teachers to consider participating.  We have had schools who participate as all classes activity, some with classes as the teacher elects do so, and some (mostly middle or upper grades) who have used this as an outside or extra credit assignment (one of our Indiana winners competed as an extra credit writer).