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Download full textO'Rourke, Carolyn L.; Papalewis, Rosemary – 1989
Following a thorough review of current studies and literature on women in leadership, this document examines the results of a study conducted to determine the significance of female gender in educational leadership, and how attitudes, values, perceptions, and life experiences of women differ from those of men and are reflected in female leadership…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness, Educational Administration
Peterson, Roland L.; And Others – 1981
Published and unpublished literature is reviewed to identify and describe patterns of delivering vocational agriculture and home economics programs to students in small rural secondary schools. A conceptual model is developed based on patterns found in the literature. Non-school-based, school-based, and a combination of the two are identified as…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Community Characteristics, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems
Karon, James P. – 1985
Using information from relevant literature and recent surveys and interviews with administrators of many of Rhode Island's smaller school districts, the report identifies options/strategies which may be useful in counteracting the potential adverse effects that low, or significantly declining, enrollments may have on the comprehensiveness of a…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment, Delivery Systems
Barker, Bruce – 1985
Information available on rural education remains startlingly inadequate--partly because of the great diversity of rural areas, because agencies responsible for data collection disagree on the definition of small/rural schools, and because large metropolitan schools have received far more than their share of attention, research, and financial…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Beeson, Elizabeth; Strange, Marty – 2003
Nearly one in three of America's school-age children attend public schools in rural areas or small towns, and more than one in six go to school in the very smallest communities. These children, their schools, and their communities matter, and they deserve more consideration than they get in the national debate over education policy. This report…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Indicators, Educational Policy
Jolly, Deborah V.; Deloney, Patricia – 1993
This synthesis aims to provide policymakers with a comprehensive overview of issues surrounding the reorganization of small rural school districts. The report draws on research findings and describes examples of various organizational arrangements to address rural education needs. Seven sections examine the following: (1) current social and…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1989
This report provides demographic, statistical, and other indicator data related to rural education in the Mid-Atlantic region of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The data are intended to aid state rural assistance councils in developing plans to improve rural schools. One obstacle to consistent policy implementation is the…
Descriptors: Definitions, Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs
Bogie, Donald W.; Martin, Larry – 1991
The study analyzed data concerning students enrolled in special education classes in Alabama's 130 (67 county and 63 city) public school systems, including student counts by age, grade in school, school district, type of exceptionality, and personnel needs. Analysis indicated a considerable variation among school systems in the distribution of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Demography, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
New York State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled, Albany. – 1990
This New York State study evaluated problems encountered by children with handicapping conditions and their parents (N=1,486) in obtaining a free, appropriate public education. The majority (64 percent) of parents were satisfied with their child's educational program. Only 19 percent were dissatisfied. Parents of children with physical…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Age Differences, Conflict Resolution, Disabilities
Sher, Jonathan P.; Schaller, Karin – 1986
At the request of the North Carolina School Boards Association, a nationally recognized expert on school and school district consolidation evaluated the 1986 North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) plan for school district consolidation from the perspective of economic, educational, and social/political considerations, including the…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Knuti, David; Zuckerman, Alan, Ed. – 1986
This guide is intended to assist Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) program policymakers, planners, and program operators develop JTPA programs and activities. Discussed first are JTPA participant eligibility criteria and ways of assuring that competing groups can receive services in an equitable manner that is consistent with the intent of JTPA.…
Descriptors: Business Education, Competency Based Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Legislation
Anderson, Peggy L.; And Others – 1988
A needs assessment instrument was developed to identify training competencies for rural special education teachers in Louisiana. The 49-item questionnaire addressed such issues as the curriculum offered by the teacher education program as well as the personal and professional characteristics necessary for success in the rural classroom. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Competency Based Teacher Education, Disabilities, Educational Needs
Thurston, Paul; Clauss, Joanne – 1985
Justification for school district consolidation is made on the basis of either reducing cost or increasing educational quality. Some cost reduction may be realized through certain economies of scale in some consolidations but it is by no means automatic. The Illinois State Board of Education emphasizes the relationship between high school size and…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Consolidated Schools, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum
McBeath, Gerald A.; And Others – 1984
A 3-year study of decentralization of Alaska schools identified several factors that influenced whether a school was locally controlled and found patterns of control associated in important ways with staff and community attitudes toward school. Information was gathered by surveys and interviews conducted in 28 communities randomly selected to…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Boards of Education
Knox, Stanley C. – 1983
In an effort to gather information on the status of special education programs in rural areas, visits were made to 33 school districts in 14 states representing 4 different administrative organizations (intermediate school districts, cooperatives, county systems, single districts) and 5 geographical regions. School populations ranged from 850 to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Educational Administration
