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Download full textParrish, Paige; Keyes, Marian; Orletsky, Sandra; Coe, Pamelia; Runge, Claudia; Meehan, Merrill; Whitaker, Julia; Nickell, Margaret; Roberts, Jean; Sallee, Modena; Ladd, Pamela; Caudill, Cathy; Foster, Gaye; Hatton, Sharon; Lewis, Starr; Tolbert, Shannon – 1999
One mandate of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 requires that students develop a writing portfolio. Ultimately, schools must elevate the average performance level of students' portfolios to the benchmark of "proficient." During site visits to 29 schools, 36 indicators were identified that differentiated writing scores and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Direct linkBrowne-Ferrigno, Tricia; Knoeppel, Robert C. – Educational Considerations, 2005
This article shares findings from an exploratory case study about an advanced leadership development program for administrator-certified practitioners in a Central Appalachian school district. The goal of the Principals Excellence Program, one of 24 projects supported by federal funds through the No Child Left Behind School Leadership Development…
Descriptors: Principals, Access to Education, Equal Education, Rural Schools
Notes from the Field: Education Reform in Rural Kentucky, 1998
As part of an 8-year study of education reform in rural Kentucky, this report examines the primary program that has evolved in six rural elementary schools as a result of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which requires that grades K-3 be replaced by a nongraded program. This change aimed to eliminate failure in the first 2 years of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Appalachia Educational Lab., Charleston, WV. – 1991
This two-part report focuses on progress made by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) during the first year of a 5-year contract. AEL's mandate is to work with educators in ongoing research and development-based efforts to improve education and educational opportunities in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Part I:…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, At Risk Persons, Early Childhood Education, Educational Improvement
Howley, Craig B.; Coe, Pam – 1989
In a demonstration of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory's (AEL's) Community Partnership for School Improvement model, Hart County (Kentucky) community members and school representatives planned and implemented a school improvement project to increase parents' involvement in their children's education. In May 1988, 203 out of 625 questionnaires…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Improvement Programs, Parent Attitudes
Mersky, Ronald – 1983
This research studies task-based stress among teachers in a rural setting. A 51-item instrument was administered to teachers in 12 schools to determine (1) the extent of differential reactions to a wide range of task-based teaching events, as correlated with situational characteristics (sex, age, elementary or secondary affiliation, school size);…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Discipline, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1968
Basic needs of children and youth which cannot be provided by small rural schools could be realized by combining the resources and pupils of a number of local districts. Four types of organization are presented as possibilities for providing cooperative educational services: (1) autonomous districts with line functions; (2) semi-autonomous…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agencies, Classification, Cooperative Planning
Baldwin, Fred D. – Appalachia, 1996
A public water line built in 1992 in rural Casey County, Kentucky, has spawned economic growth and allowed children at 2 elementary schools and a foster home, and residents of 110 private homes to have clean, drinkable water. The Appalachian Regional Commission has assisted hundreds of counties in improving their water or sewage treatment…
Descriptors: Children, Drinking Water, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
Din, Feng S. – 1996
An experimental project was implemented to test the effectiveness of full inclusion of students with learning and behavioral disorders at a rural middle school within the Appalachian region of Kentucky. Thirteen students with behavioral disorders or learning disabilities were placed in four regular classrooms for 3 months. Five teachers…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Inclusive Schools
Din, Feng S. – 1996
This paper examines how inclusion services are delivered in Kentucky rural regular schools. Survey responses were received from special educators in 261 rural regular schools throughout Kentucky. Vocational schools, treatment centers, alternative schools, and other special schools were not included in the survey. Results indicate that…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Mainstreaming
Reeves, Edward B. – 1998
The system of high-stakes accountability in the Kentucky public schools raises the question of whether teachers and administrators should be held accountable if test scores are influenced by external factors over which educators have no control. This study investigates whether such external factors , or "contextual effects," bias the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Births to Single Women, Context Effect
Notes From the Field: Education Reform in Rural Kentucky, 1993
This document consists of the two issues in the third volume (covering 1993) of "Notes from the Field," a serial documenting a 5-year study of the implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) of 1990 in four rural Kentucky school districts. The first issue addresses implementation of an ungraded primary program in eight…
Descriptors: Continuous Progress Plan, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Nongraded Instructional Grouping
Howley, Craig B.; And Others – 1988
This article describes work on a new tool to help educators increase parental involvement in their schools using the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). When the authors set out on their goal in rural Hart County, Kentucky, they discovered that no instrument existed to measure changes in the level of parental involvement. Using…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Techniques, Parent Attitudes
YOUMANS, E. GRANT – 1963
A SURVEY OF SCHOOL DROPOUTS IN 11 EASTERN KENTUCKY COUNTIES WAS DESIGNED TO ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS--(1) TO WHAT EXTENT IS THE RURAL SCHOOL DROPOUT DISADVANTAGED IN COMPARISON WITH THE RURAL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE7 (2) IS GRADUATION FROM HIGH SCHOOL AN ADVANTAGE IF THE YOUTH REMAINS IN A RURAL AREA7 (3) IS IT AN ADVANTAGE IF HE MOVES TO AN…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Attitudes, Behavior Standards
Leopold, Gregory D.; Childers, Robert D.; Howley-Rowe, Caitlin – 2000
To generate information that would help rural schools take advantage of the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) program, 47 principals of rural schools in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia were interviewed via telephone. The schools fell into two categories: schools that applied but were not funded through the CSRD…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Disadvantaged Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
