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Seelig, Jennifer – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
As part of an ethnographic study of one rural school-community relationship, this paper explores how school and community leaders conceive of the purpose of schooling in their community, delineates the educational policies and practices that support this purpose, and offers insight into the implications of such a purpose. Adding to the rural…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Rural Areas, School Community Relationship, Community Development
Andresen, Will – Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, 2009
A considerable literature exists documenting the migration movements of individuals. For example, James Jasper (2000) has written that Americans "change our residence... more often than any other culture except nomadic tribes". The average American moves every five years, making this compulsion to move an important part of the culture.…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Rural Education, Young Adults, Professional Personnel
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Brown, Frank – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
Public education in America continues to be viewed as being worthy of major investments to improve the county's economic position in the world. But quality education for many Americans is still not within their reach. Fifty years after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" eliminating legal segregation of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Impact, Global Approach, School Desegregation
Durden, William G. – 1988
Although performance on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the American College Test Program (ACT) indicates that Wisconsin's students are superior to those of other states, a more thorough assessment reveals that the state does not compare well with its neighbors either on the general level of academic preparedness or in efforts to develop…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Achievement Tests, Brain Drain
Durden, William G. – 1989
A one-year follow-up study of a 1988 report on Wisconsin's internal "brain drain" indicates that the state's historic educational advantage is shrinking. Assessment of performance on the American College Testing Program (ACT), the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT), and the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) reveals that scores are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Achievement Tests, Advanced Placement Programs