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Download full textMathis, William J. – 2001
This booklet aims to help concerned citizens change laws and school funding systems to improve equity and adequacy for rural education programs. It will help readers gather the information they need, evaluate its meaning, put it in context, establish networks with others, and work with their legislatures and courts to solve the problems. Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Court Litigation, Court Role, Educational Equity (Finance)
Lick, Dale W. – 1985
With budget limitations, additional expectations and accountability requirements, changing enrollment trends, teacher shortages, need for new kinds of services, and other difficulties faced by rural communities, partnership arrangements with the private sector and higher education promise new avenues for rural education to meet future obligations.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Educational Change
Spears, Jacqueline D.; Maes, Sue C. – 1985
Approximately one-fourth of those involved in adult learning live in rural areas. A survey of programs serving rural adult learners reveals that no one educational provider or program seems best suited to provide services to rural communities. What successful providers have in common are programs which: (1) respond to a specific societal need, (2)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Change Strategies
Frankena, Frederick – 1984
Findings of a study to establish the determinants and effects of urban to rural population migration patterns in Osceola County, Michigan, where a 27.6% increase (4,090 people) occurred during the 1970's, illustrate typical effects of population migration turnaround on nonmetropolitan schools. The study revealed that school facilities were…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
AEL, Inc., Charleston, WV. – 2000
Educational reform poses problems for administrators in rural areas who have limited time and resources. This guide offers a process that can be used by rural administrators to engage the community in activities that will enhance children's success in the classroom and in their adult lives. Section 1 discusses the importance of community…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Change Strategies
Howley, Craig B., Ed.; Eckman, John M., Ed. – 1997
This book aims to help parents, community members, and educators find resources, design school options, and take action together to improve small rural schools in ways that meet community and student needs. Chapter 1 discusses the virtues of smallness, outlines basic assumptions about the role and nature of good education, examines the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Community Schools, Educational Change
Rosenfeld, Stuart – 1984
It is becoming increasingly apparent that rural communities will have to alter their economic patterns as the United States economy shifts and rural areas cannot compete successfully with cities for emerging industries and future jobs. Instead of catering to the large firms and high-tech companies that are expected to predominate in the future,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Change Strategies, Demonstration Programs, Economic Development
