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Direct linkSteven Hall – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to identify ways a Global Schools Initiative in rural schools, especially in northwestern North Carolina, supported students, teachers, and the greater community. The study reviewed the factors that facilitated this initiative and looked at the impact the initiative had on students, teachers, and the community. I…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Rural Education, Rural Schools, Small Schools
Graves, Bill; Bolch, Judy – 1989
This series of newspaper articles evaluates North Carolina's schools and establishes a relationship between the state's rural poverty and low student achievement levels. Test scores in 1988 are consistently low in all but four of the poorest rural counties. Small schools are disappearing from rural areas. Large schools can offer students more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Factors
Download full textSher, Jonathan P.; Schaller, Karin – 1986
At the request of the North Carolina School Boards Association, a nationally recognized expert on school and school district consolidation evaluated the 1986 North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) plan for school district consolidation from the perspective of economic, educational, and social/political considerations, including the…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
