Moving Mountains: Reform, Resistance, and Resiliency in an Appalachian Kentucky High School. National Rural Education Association 1996 Dissertation of the Year Award.

Porter, Maureen K.

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Moving Mountains: Reform, Resistance, and Resiliency in an Appalachian Kentucky High School. National Rural Education Association 1996 Dissertation of the Year Award.

Porter, Maureen K.

Journal of Research in Rural Education, v12 n2 p107-15 Fall 1996

A year-long ethnographic investigation examined how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they had targeted for reform while resisting state priorities and policies mandated in the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Contrasts KERA objectives with cultural themes prominent in this poor marginalized rural district to highlight key tensions and paradoxes shaping KERA's fate. (SV)

Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change, Ethnography, High Schools, Participative Decision Making, Resistance to Change, Rural Schools, School Community Relationship, School District Autonomy, State School District Relationship

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Kentucky

Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Kentucky Education Reform Act 1990

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