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Paul G. Fitchett; Brett L. M. Levy; Jeremy D. Stoddard – AERA Open, 2024
This study explores social studies teachers' self-reported instruction about teaching the 2020 election in U.S. secondary schools. We analyzed survey responses from 1,723 secondary social studies teachers from 12 states (3 left-leaning, 3 right-leaning, 6 battleground) collected in the weeks after the election, examining self-reported pedagogies,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Elections, Political Campaigns, Social Studies
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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
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Hilburn, Jeremy; Journell, Wayne; Buchanan, Lisa Brown – High School Journal, 2016
In this content analysis of state U.S. History and Civics standards, we compared the treatment of immigration across three types of states with differing immigration demographics. Analyzing standards from 18 states from a critical race methodology perspective, our findings indicated three sets of tensions: a unified American story versus local…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Immigration, Immigrants, United States History
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Kwaw-Mensah, David; Martin, Robert A. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions that extension educators in the North Central region of the United States hold regarding selected educational strategies pertaining to livestock waste management education. Livestock waste management education has been recognized as one of extension's major initiatives in the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Extension Agents, Extension Education, Sanitation
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Boyland, Lori – Planning and Changing, 2013
Due to an aging population of currently practicing superintendents, research predicts a large turnover in public school superintendent positions in this decade. Questions exist regarding whether there are sufficient numbers of potential superintendent candidates in training to fill these positions. Although principals have been recognized as a…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Public Schools
Quinn, Nancy W.; Quinn, C. William – 1990
A detailed regional profile that compares rural and urban populations of seven North Central states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) is presented in this report. Following an overview of the report, sources, and definitions, the next eight sections discuss the region as a whole and each of the seven states by…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education, Population Distribution
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Geske, Terry G. – Journal of Education Finance, 1984
Analyzes data on the economic prospects of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin--including demographic and economic trends, trends in taxation systems, school revenue and expenditure trends, and future revenue prospects--and offers prognoses for individual states. Generally, short-range revenue prospects are bleak, and long-range…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Change, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student
Reyes (J.A.) Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1978
Major components of a study conducted in 1977 and 1978 were: (1) an examination of existing literature on migrant transportation; (2) collection of pertinent empirical data from federal, state, and migrant work camp records; and (3) vehicle counts and observation at 32 selected locations in 11 destination states in the western, midwestern, and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Demography, Farm Labor, Federal Regulation
Office of Education (DHEW), Chicago, IL. Regional Office 5. – 1980
The publication, intended for persons involved in educational activities, provides selected data on demographic, social, economic, and educational characteristics of Region V, United States Department of Education. Region V comprises Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The majority of the data was drawn from the 1976…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Demography, Disabilities, Economic Research
Barger, Ken; Reza, Ernesto – 1984
In 1983, personal interviews with 38 adult, Mexican American, migrant farmworker, male heads of households working tomato crops in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan revealed living and working conditions and views and involvement regarding labor rights and the farmworker movement among the estimated 65,000 Midwestern migrant farmworkers. Interview data…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Demography, Farm Labor, Labor Conditions