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Article: Rural economic development and education: the Agar model. (Agar High School in South Dakota)
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- South Dakota Business Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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Each school day morning, students arrive at Agar High School to attend classes. What may seem like a typical happening in any community across America is anything but typical in Agar, South Dakota. Instead of going to a classroom, students head to their offices, complete with a desk, computer and work station.
And, when the seven high school students meet every Monday morning with the Principal/Superintendent, it isn't what most people would expect such an encounter to be. They aren't just students and administrator; they are "the firm."
Agar is small, rural town a few miles north of Pierre that has a school district with a vision: to educate business ...