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Gallegos, Bart – American School Board Journal, 1995
Teachers for Chicago is a program that recruits, educates, and trains new teachers. The Chicago Public Schools pays for candidates to earn a master's degree in education at a participating college or university. Participants work as interns for two years under the tutelage of a mentor. A sidebar describes how rural districts aggressively recruit…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Internship Programs
Center for Rural Pennsylvania, Harrisburg. – 1994
This report provides Pennsylvania state legislators and educators with policy-relevant information about the distance learning needs of rural Pennsylvania school districts. Two surveys, covering rural and urban-suburban Pennsylvania school districts, examined distance learning programs and technologies currently being used and the possibility of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
Helge, Doris; Marrs, Lawrence W. – 1981
Recruitment and retention of special education teachers and related services staff have been persistent problems of rural school districts nationwide. High teacher attrition rates have serious ramifications for personnel development and program stability. Effective recruitment strategies for rural areas have four main components: (1) emphasis on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Recruitment, Personnel Management, Rural Areas
Bradshaw, Dean H.; Brown, Patricia R. – 1989
Designed to help educators and policymakers consider the effective use of currently-evolving distance learning technologies, this policy brief examines: (1) the need for distance learning; (2) the most promising combinations of technologies (two-way television, one-way television with audio return, and audiographics); (3) the cost-effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Distance Education, Educational Policy
Ingram, E. J.; And Others – 1984
Intended to help a rural Alberta (Canada) school district improve its policies on school attendance areas, this report delineates (1) current policies and procedures; (2) the institutional, social, and environmental context of these policies; (3) parents' concerns; (4) alternatives for improving the district's policies; and (5) recommendations.…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Delivery Systems, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality
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Honeyman, David S.; Stewart, G. Kent – Research in Rural Education, 1985
Studies condition of school facilities in 223 rural and small schools in Kansas in 1984. Finds condition of facilities closely related to bonded indebtedness of the school district and replacement estimates exceeding $56 million. Discusses inability of wealth-poor districts to maintain buildings and need for legislative action on equity issues.…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1984
A team of examiners from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reviews Portugal's education system in a three-part report. Part One begins with the consequences of the 1974 revolution, Portugal's economic problems, its impending attachment to the European Economic Community, and rising public expectations about…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Compulsory Education, Decentralization, Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Santiago (Chile). Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. – 1986
The Major Project in the Field of Education stresses renewed and intensive efforts by Latin American and Caribbean Island countries to provide the resources and training necessary to meet basic education needs by the year 2000. This document examines project achievements, innovations, and problems through 1986 in the areas of rural education,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education
Roweton, William E. – 1985
Questionnaires surveying the extent of programs and support for education of the gifted and talented were received from 60 teachers and administrators in rural elementary and secondary schools in Nebraska's 11 most western counties. (The return rate of the mailed questionnaires was 24%). Results indicated that teachers and administrators…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
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Claycomb, Carla; Haynes, Mariana – State Education Standard, 2003
Based on the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) recent report, this article provides the foundation for state accountability systems that focus on improvement. Contains NASBE's proposed Public Policy Position on Low Performing Schools. (Contains 14 references.) (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Disadvantaged Schools, Economic Factors
Muse, Ivan; And Others – 1985
Academic and social performance of 204 high school students who had attended one-teacher rural elementary schools in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Montana was investigated to determine if small school students were disadvantaged in a larger high school setting. Data gathered by questionnaires from students, school administrators, and counselors…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Counselor Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Rossi, Robert J., Ed. – 1994
This book presents essays from educational reformers who examine efforts aimed at students at risk for failure in U.S. schools. It is divided into four parts. Part 1 considers the factors that place children at risk for educational failure. Part 2 describes the dangers for students of a system that fails to recognize and appreciate their…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Black Students, Cultural Influences, Dropout Prevention
Wall, Milan – 1985
Technological delivery systems currently available or in use are examined for adaptability by rural schools, especially high schools faced with increasing demands to expand curriculum. This report focuses on the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory's (McREL's) service area of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Curriculum Enrichment, Delivery Systems
Crohn, Leslie; Nelson, Steven R. – 1986
Alternative models of rural school improvement consortia were identified through a review of research literature in order to determine what existing models were applicable to rural school consortia in the northwest United States. Organization structure of rural school collaboratives and characteristics associated with successful functioning were…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Consortia, Cooperative Programs, Educational Cooperation
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1986
Duties of 46 county school superintendents in Oklahoma were analyzed and educational benefits of statutory provisions and additional activities were evaluated. Questionnaires, telephone and personal interviews, and on-site visits provided data. Statutory duties were found to be present in each superintendent's report and to be mostly clear and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, Case Studies
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