"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…

Describes guidelines that a rural Minnesota school district followed to implement inclusion of handicapped students in the regular classroom: administrative support, small-group inservice, floating substitute teachers, ongoing follow-up, ongoing communication, documentation of Individualized Education Plans (IEP), and team teaching. (LP)

Through what seems to be a very wise adaptation of methods of support and administration to schools of different kinds and to schools working under varying conditions in different parts of the State, but still preserving a high degree of correlation and unity of purpose, and by a commendable degree of liberality in expenditures for education, the…