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Bouchard, Rene – 1999
In an address to the House Ways and Means Committee on the Revenue Provision in the Year 2000 Budget, Rene Bouchard, CEO of Steuben-Allegany Board of Cooperative Educational Services, discusses the needs of rural schools and how the President's school modernization proposal would help them. Bouchard argues the need for federal assistance to school…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Government School Relationship

Collins, Susan – State Education Standard, 2003
Senator Collins of Maine plans to fight for proper federal funding of the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) that allows rural schools to combine federal funding sources. Collins, and Senator Dianne Feinstein, will soon introduce legislation that will eliminate inequities in the current Social Security law that penalize teachers and other…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Government Employees
Center for Rural Policy and Development, 2005
The Entrepreneurial Campus Initiative (ECI) is a collaborative effort between the Northland Foundation, the Northeast Entrepreneur Fund and the Center for Rural Policy and Development. The purpose of the initiative is to explore and design new ways in which rural college campuses can be more engaged in entrepreneurship and business development in…
Descriptors: College Students, Rural Schools, Community Colleges, Business Administration
Lathrop, Edith A. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1930
Schools were never so dependent upon adequate library facilities as they are at the present time. This condition has come about largely through modern school curricula which demand for their execution large collections of books, magazines, and other reading matter relating to many subjects. At the present time much stress is being placed upon the…
Descriptors: School Personnel, State Agencies, Library Services, Rural Areas
Zeng, Tianshan, Deng, Youchao; Yang, Runyong; Zuo, Xiaomei; Chu, Zhaohui; Li, Xiejing – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Balanced development of compulsory education is not only the cornerstone of education equity, but also the fundamental part for realizing a harmonious society. There have been several achievements in balancing the development of compulsory education in China, such as narrowing the gaps in compulsory education between rural, urban, and other areas.…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Urban Schools, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries
Barker, Bruce O. – 1992
This handbook presents a snapshot view of the use of telecommunications technologies to deliver instruction to distant audiences of K-12 students in the United States. The information is intended specifically for people who work in and with small, rural, or remote schools. Available technologies and programming vary widely in offerings and…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Distance Education, Educational Planning, Educational Research

Stewart, G. Kent – CEFP Journal, 1987
Small school districts have little leeway in predicting school enrollment. The basic tool of cohort survival technique can be augmented with the district census study and strategically located volunteers to monitor move-ins and move-outs within an assigned geographic area of the school district. (MLF)
Descriptors: Census Figures, Cohort Analysis, Community Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education

Newmann, Fred M.; Rutter, Robert A. – Educational Leadership, 1986
Presents the results from a 1984 national survey of high school community service programs. Findings include: 27 percent of high schools offer some kind of community service programs, enrollments vary greatly, females outnumber males, more than half of the programs have no hispanics, and 36 percent have no black students. Includes tables,…
Descriptors: Community Services, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Females

Barker, Bruce O.; And Others – Rural Educator, 1985
Reports on a 1983-84 nationwide descriptive study of K-12 and one-12 rural school districts enrolling 300 students or less done to provide educators with needed information on the status of the very small school district. Highlights findings on rural districts, superintendents, teachers, student performance, and school programs. (BRR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, National Surveys, Rural Schools

Kusler, Mary Conk – State Education Standard, 2003
Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) grants give rural districts a new source of federal funds. REAP has two separate programs that address the specific needs of rural districts. The first is the Small and Rural Schools Achievement Program; the second is the Rural and Low Income Schools Program. Explains the differences in the programs and…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Powers, Mary Ann – 1989
The Drug Infusion Project is designed to assist rural school districts in their efforts to infuse drug education into their regular curriculum through comprehensive and integrated programming, which includes: (1) developing a statistical base through surveys; (2) training teachers in infusion techniques; (3) broadening the definition of…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Curriculum Development, Drug Abuse, Drug Education
Sesney, John – 1989
Alcohol and drug use among youth has been of increased concern to educators, politicians, parents, and students in the past few years. The purpose of this study was to examine the incidence and use of alcohol and drugs in the rural region of northern Idaho and eastern Washington state. A questionnaire was designed to collect demographic…
Descriptors: Drinking, High School Students, Incidence, Junior High School Students
Eastmond, J. Nicholls, Jr.; And Others – 1987
This study surveyed high school students, teachers, and administrators of rural schools in Utah to determine what courses and inservice training offerings these groups wish to see made available via telecommunications. Delivery systems for such courses would include one or more of the following elements: broadcast media, audio teleconferencing,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Distance Education, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education
Cook, Katherine M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
Supervision as understood in well-organized city systems has little resemblance to the annual visitation of schools as practiced by many county or other rural superintendents. The majority of these officers are fully conscious of the limitations imposed upon them by the conditions under which they work and they are active in their efforts to…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Administration, Superintendents, Counties
Marz, Will – American School Board Journal, 1992
A case study of an anonymous but real-life district swamped in a conflict that involves a succession of superintendents, an entrenched school board secretary, a teacher who was fired and later elected board president, and several board members recalled. Three school leaders offer their advice. (MLF)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Case Studies, Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education