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Smith, Stephen M. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1985
Discusses service industries' role in developing economies of rural areas. Describes ways service industries generate employment and local income and blend with a local economy. Summarizes survey of contributions to local economies and what attracted them to their communities for 385 service firms in nonmetropolitan Wisconsin. Tables provide…
Descriptors: Community Development, Municipalities, Rural Areas, Rural Development
Peer reviewedKliebard, Herbert M. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1996
Observes the changes in public education that occurred along the Wisconsin frontier. As the territory progressed, education changed from a winter-term only enterprise lead by male farmer/teachers to a full term lead by professionally trained women teachers. Identifies professionalization as the greatest influence on the feminization of teaching.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
