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Howley, Aimee; Howley, Marged; Hendrickson, Katie; Belcher, Johnny; Howley, Craig – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2012
This case study focuses on a four-district collaborative that shared services for more than 15 years in an effort to retain rural schools and thereby to preserve community identity. With population losses in the four districts and suburbanization in the largest, the collaborative made extensive use of distance education in addition to itinerant…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Qualitative Research, Consolidated Schools, Distance Education
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Howley, Aimee; Howley, Craig; Burgess, Larry; Pusateri, Drew – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2008
This article presents a case study of egalitarian educational practices evident in a rural school that served a large proportion (40%) of Amish students. The Amish are a pacifist Christian sect widely misunderstood as quaint and even backward; their traditional work is small-scale farming. In 1972 the Amish wrested the national right--via a US…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Social Class, Religious Cultural Groups, Community Involvement