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"Math Expressions" is a curriculum for students in prekindergarten through sixth grade that aims to build students' conceptual understanding of mathematics and to develop fluency in mathematical problem solving and computation. The curriculum encourages student learning of mathematics through real-world situations, visual supports such…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
Rice, Russ – Appalachia, 1987
Time and modern education caught up with the nine pupils of Daniel's Creek Elementary School, one of the last remaining one-room schoolhouses in Kentucky. The school was closed at the end of the 1986-87 school year by the county school board, after much opposition from a citizen's group. (JMM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, One Teacher Schools, Personal Narratives, Rural Schools
Baldwin, Fred D. – Appalachia, 2000
At Owsley County Elementary School (Booneville, Kentucky), the number of parent and community volunteers has doubled over the past 5 years. The school employs a full-time coordinator of parent involvement, has a parent center, and reaches out to the wider community with a monthly newsletter delivered to every county household. Benefits of parent…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Support, Elementary Education, Elementary Schools
Notes from the Field: Education Reform in Rural Kentucky, 2000
Since the 1990-91 school year, an ongoing project has studied the implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) in four rural Kentucky school districts. Study methods have included over 1,200 interviews with various stakeholders, observation of over 500 classroom instruction hours, and a comprehensive review of key documents. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Stoddart, Jess, Ed.; Stone, May; Pettit, Katherine – 1997
Beginning in 1899, Katherine Pettit and May Stone spent three summers in social settlement work in Kentucky at Camp Cedar Grove, Camp Industrial, and Sassafras Social Settlement before founding the Hindman Settlement School in 1902. The camps taught homemaking skills; provided kindergartens; assisted local people with health, homemaking, and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Maintenance, Diaries, Educational History
Williams, Cratis D.; Gifford, James M., Ed. – 1995
This book is a memoir of one-room school life in 1929. In his day, Cratis D. Williams (1911-85) was America's foremost scholar on the Appalachian experience. This book is the story of his first teaching assignment at age 18 in a one-room K-8 school on Caines Creek in Lawrence County, Kentucky. Williams details his classroom practices and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Educational Practices, Elementary Education
Boyd, Thomas A. – 1987
This paper summarizes arguments surrounding the closing of Hisel School in Jackson County, Kentucky, in an effort to analyze the debate on rural education in Appalachia and how it relates to school-community relationships. Events surrounding closure of the school are summarized, including a two-year period in which a school community volunteer…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Community Support
Kannapel, Patricia J.; Aagaard, Lola; Coe, Pamelia; Reeves, Cynthia A. – 2000
From 1990 to 2000, a qualitative study of the implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) was conducted in four small rural school districts in Kentucky. KERA reflects key components of what would later be termed "systemic reform": a unifying set of goals that all students must attain, a coherent system of instructional…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Change, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedClouse, R. Wilburn – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 1992
Describes a follow-up study that examined results of adopting the Teaching and Learning with Computers approach in a small rural school district. Use of the Jostens Learning Corporation integrated curriculum is explained, and evaluations of Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills results that show changes in scale scores and comparisons with national…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Design
