NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 5 results Save | Export
Howley, Aimee; Clonch, Sandra; Howley, Craig; Perko, Heike; Klein, Robert; Foley, Greg; Belcher, Johnny; Pendarvis, Edwina; Howley, Marged; Miyafusa, Sumiko; Tusay, Mark; Jimerson, Lorna – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), 2010
The teaching of mathematics, which arguably is so abstract as to transcend place and community and even culture (according at least to a Platonic view of mathematics), will seem to some observers particularly ill-suited to instruction in place- or community- or culture-based approaches. Nevertheless, current thinking in mathematics education,…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Mathematics Instruction, Education, Rural Education
Howley, Craig; Howley, Aimee; Larson, Bill – 1999
A survey of rural and suburban principals in Ohio and West Virginia explored the different approaches to planning that principals take and examined two possible contextual influences: rural versus suburban locale, and state. A survey instrument based on five types of planning discussed in the literature was completed by 207 West Virginia…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Howley, Craig – 2001
This paper discusses "constructions" of school size in West Virginia and Ohio and related issues concerned with school and school district consolidation, and the role of education, politics, and globalization. "School size" is not the same as enrollment; grade span and level are important in understandings of size.…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Globalization, Grade Span Configuration
Howley, Aimee; Howley, Craig; Larson, William – 1999
Principals' support for various approaches to educational planning were examined in rural and suburban schools in Ohio and West Virginia. It was expected that rational approaches to planning would be more prevalent in suburban than rural schools and in a state with more tightly coupled bureaucratic control (West Virginia) than a less tightly…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bureaucracy, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Howley, Craig – 1999
Previous research in California, Alaska, and West Virginia has suggested that school or school district size may influence student achievement indirectly by mediating the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) on achievement. The Matthew Project is replicating the key analyses of the West Virginia study in four strategically chosen states: Georgia,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Effect Size, Elementary Secondary Education