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Jeffrey D. Craig Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative phenomenological study delved into the factors influencing the retention of special education teachers in rural Luzerne County, Pennsylvania school districts. The focus was on understanding why these educators chose to continue in their positions despite facing significant challenges such as limited resources, administrative…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Special Education Teachers, Rural Schools, School Districts
Chelsea Sharek – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the beliefs K-12 teachers have when working with students with disabilities in a rural Pennsylvania school district. This study aimed to identify if teachers' personal beliefs created biases about their students and school systems; thus, forming barriers and preventing an inclusive education when…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Equal Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Drew Jacobs; Debbie Veney – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2023
"Believing in Public Education: A Demographic and State-level Analysis of Public Charter School and District Public School Enrollment Trends" is a new data analysis that examines enrollment trends during the last four school years (2019-2023). Over the last four school years (2019-20 to 2022-23), charter schools have gained more than…
Descriptors: Public Education, Public Schools, Charter Schools, School Districts
Nicole Yurchak – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The number of English Language Learners (ELLs) in rural public schools has been steadily increasing in recent years. These rural schools are often underfunded and ill-prepared to manage this new demographic of students, which often leads to the students being neglected and falling behind in their studies. This Action Research Study consisted of…
Descriptors: English Learners, Rural Schools, Public Schools, Student Needs
Kotok, Stephen; DiMartino, Catherine; DeMatthews, David E. – Journal of School Leadership, 2021
Due to the growth of school choice across the United States as well as declining enrollment in some districts, schools are experiencing increasing competition for students. As a result, principals and school district leaders in high-choice districts are now expected to develop strategies such as branding, marketing, and community outreach to…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrators, School Districts, School Choice
Julia E. Snider; Stacy K. Dymond – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2023
Students with intellectual disability (ID) tend to have different experiences than their peers without ID as it pertains to the curriculum they receive, the locations where they are taught, and the amount of time they are provided instruction. The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the curricular areas and contexts in which high…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Special Education
White, Simone; Harmon, Hobart; Johnson, Jerry; O'Neill, Brian – Rural Educator, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the many existing inequalities in education systems across the world. Not all children have easy access to educational online resources or digital technologies, a situation more amplified in rural contexts where access, connectivity and affordability play a significant factor. This qualitative account reveals…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Access to Education, Internet
Erin N. Spencer; Mia Ocean; Matt Saboe; Simon Condliffe; Keith Hazen – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
U.S. rural community colleges serve approximately 3.4 million students, yet there is very little research on these institutions. We conducted a mulitple case study to develop a typology of rural community college locations. We gathered and analyzed publicly available data (n = 25) and private institutional data (n = 6) and conducted in-person…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Rural Schools, Off Campus Facilities, Classification
Hoke, Alicia M.; Keller, Chelsea M.; Calo, William A.; Sekhar, Deepa L.; Lehman, Erik B.; Kraschnewski, Jennifer L. – Journal of School Nursing, 2021
Pennsylvania responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by closing schools and moving to online instruction in March 2020. We surveyed Pennsylvania school nurses (N = 350) in May 2020 to assess the impact of COVID-19 on nurses' concerns about returning to school and impact on practice. Data were analyzed using X[superscript 2] tests and regression…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
Capik, Davina; Shupp, Matthew – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
There is limited research on the experiences of first-generation students who have completed their second year and enrolled for a third year in order to continue their studies even though this population of students are the most likely to drop out of college in their second year. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how current…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Rural Schools, Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence
Molly Kozel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
School closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in millions of students in the United States switching to emergency remote learning, with varying academic and social-emotional impacts on students. This study was an attempt to investigate whether large-scale shifts in levels of internalizing or externalizing symptoms occurred among…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Borland, Jennifer; Moylan, Adam; Dove, Anthony; Dunleavy, Matthew; Chachra, Vinod – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2022
Microcredentials are a promising means for expanding teacher access to high quality professional development. This study examined the effectiveness of online, self-paced microcredential courses designed for teachers working in underserved rural communities. The content of these competency-based microcredentials centered on recommended…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Abigail Jo Leonard – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this inquiry was to conduct a formative evaluation of a rural Pennsylvania school district's dispositional hiring practices. The review of literature includes disposition evaluation methods and summarizes the controversial nature of evaluating dispositions. Interviews of administrators who ask dispositional questions, and newly…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, School Districts, Rural Schools, Personnel Selection
Lee Christine Bzdil – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Nearly 137,500 students in K-12 schools in Pennsylvania identified with Emotional Disturbance (ED) who receive special education services for externalizing behaviors experience bleak outcomes related to school connectedness and academic success. Teachers report feeling ill-equipped to work with students with EDEB. This instrumental case study…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Special Education
Alice L. Daugherty; Stephen G. Katsinas; Noel Keeney – Journal of Education Finance, 2022
The Pell Grant is the foundational need-based student aid program in the United States, providing students of lower socio-economic status a pathway to afford college costs and educational expenses. Currently, over one-third of all U.S. undergraduate students receive Pell. This paper examines federal Pell assistance and institutional costs for…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Public Colleges, Regional Schools, Grants