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Cowdery, Joy R. – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2010
As rural Appalachian schools in Ohio in the United States struggle to overcome institutional bias and lack of understanding to accommodate the needs of the growing population of immigrant students from diverse countries, immigrant parents struggle to fit into a new cultural environment and to secure the best education for their children. This…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Rural Schools, Qualitative Research, School Districts
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Liu, Mingxing; Murphy, Rachel; Tao, Ran; An, Xuehui – International Journal of Educational Development, 2009
Based on a survey of rural school districts in Western China, this essay explores the effects of fiscal centralisation on the relationship between local governance and school district management, most particularly on how managerial power is distributed in the rural education sector. The essay also examines some of the possible effects that changes…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Incentives, Finance Reform, Educational Finance