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Shaun M. Dougherty; Mary M. Smith; Beth Kelly – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Prior research has clearly established the substantial expected payoffs to investments in early childhood education. However, the ability to deliver early childhood programs differs across communities with access to high quality programing especially hard to establish in rural communities. We study one program, Early Steps to School Success, to…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Early Childhood Education, School Readiness, Kindergarten
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Stephen Hiller; Jessica Campbell; Patricia Muller; Anne-Maree Ruddy – Grantee Submission, 2024
The Green River Regional Educational Cooperative (GRREC) and its partners administered the STEM-CS intervention to support the professional learning of middle and high school STEM teachers in rural southcentral Kentucky counties. The goals of the STEM-CS intervention were to improve teacher STEM-CS knowledge, practice, implementation, and…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Rural Schools, Faculty Development, STEM Education
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Ault, Melinda Jones; Courtade, Ginevra; Miracle, Sally A.; Bruce, Amanda E. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2020
In the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic, teachers were forced to quickly determine how to deliver a free appropriate public education to their students when in-person instruction was not possible. School districts and states have a variety of ways to provide supports to their teachers. One method for providing technical assistance,…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Special Education Teachers, COVID-19, Pandemics
Tinsley, Brian; Cacicio, Sarah; Shah, Zohal; Parker, Daniel; Younge, Odelia; Luke Luna, Christina – Digital Promise, 2022
This landscape report explores the impact of earning micro-credentials on the social mobility of rural learners. Through four in-depth case studies, we show how earning micro-credentials may lead to credential attainment, workforce entry, promotions, and/or economic improvements (e.g., salary increase, prioritizing learners impacted by poverty),…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Rural Areas, Rural Education, Rural Population
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Heyward, Georgia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2018
The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has been studying the four-day school week since 2015. Since then, the phenomenon of the four-day school week has spread into non-rural areas and interest appears to be growing. Given these apparent changes, the author wanted to know more about recent trends in the initiative. As districts continue…
Descriptors: School Schedules, School Districts, Rural Areas, Rural Schools
Marietta, Geoff; Marietta, Sky – Harvard Education Press, 2020
"Rural Education in America" provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the diversity and complexity of rural communities in the United States and for helping rural educators implement and evaluate successful place-based programs tailored for students and their families. Written by educators who grew up in rural America and…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Student Diversity, Place Based Education, Student Needs
Weiss, Elaine – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Rural poverty rises to higher levels than poverty in urban and suburban areas, and rural communities and their schools face greater isolation, which means that families must travel farther than their urban and suburban counterparts to access available services and learning opportunities. Elaine Weiss describes two rural communities, one in…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Poverty, Rural Education, Access to Education
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Johnson, Jerry; Ohlson, Matthew A.; Shope, Shane – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2018
In this descriptive and comparative study, we present results highlighting the complexity and scope of the challenges facing rural districts as they navigate the changing demographics of the students and families they serve. Rapid increases in the number and concentration of racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse students in rural areas…
Descriptors: Demography, Social Change, Population Trends, Rural Areas
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2018
Career Technical Education (CTE) teacher recruitment is a challenge that has dogged state CTE leaders for decades. According to a recent survey of State CTE Directors, 98 percent said that increasing access to industry experts is a high priority in their state. And 20.4 percent of rural districts with CTE teacher vacancies report that CTE…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Salaries
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2017
One unique and critical element of Career Technical Education (CTE) pathways is that they offer learners exposure and access to authentic experiences inside and outside the classroom. For these opportunities to be guaranteed, industry must play a key role in the design, development and delivery of CTE pathways, including in rural communities. This…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Rural Education, Access to Education, Experiential Learning
Courtade, Ginevra R.; Shipman, Stacy D.; Williams, Rachel – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2017
SPLASH is a 3-year professional development program designed to work with classroom teachers of students with moderate and severe disabilities. The program targets new teachers and employs methods aimed at supporting rural classrooms. The training content focuses on evidence-based practices in English language arts, mathematics, and science, as…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Special Education, Faculty Development, Coaching (Performance)
MDC, 2018
In every state in the South, the percentage of residents with bachelor's degrees or higher who were born outside the state exceed the percentage born in-state, reflecting their dependence on imported talent over building their own talent-development systems. In Virginia, the Southern state with the highest percentage of residents with a B.A. or…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Demography, Academic Achievement, Income
Mobelini, Deronda Collier – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education's (CPE) "Stronger by Degrees" 2011-2015 Strategic Agenda points to additional causes for concern in the slower than projected increase in the rate of transfer from KCTCS colleges to four-year institutions (CPE, 2010). Therefore, it is important for KCTCS to develop a better understanding of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Transfer Students, Decision Making
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Abell, Michael; Collins, Belva C.; Kleinert, Harold; Pennington, Robert – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2014
The Education and Professional Standards Board (EPSB) is the governing organization for teacher certification in Kentucky. According to the EPSB (2013a), only three institutions of higher education in the state (i.e., Morehead State University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville) offer an approved alternate certificate program in…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Disabilities, Internship Programs, Alternative Teacher Certification
Hlinka, Karen Ramey – ProQuest LLC, 2012
One route to increase the number of baccalaureate degree holders in the US is for educators to guide students through the open door of the community college to the point of transfer to a four-year institution. This qualitative study is comprised of three companion projects aligned to examine the decision-making process of traditional-age students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Academic Persistence, College Transfer Students
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