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Direct linkAdsit, Tim L. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011
"Small Schools, Education, and the Importance of Community" focuses on three successful approaches for using the school as a catalyst for community development and revitalization, particularly in rural areas. The strategies also work well in suburban and urban areas. The three approaches described include: leadership by K-12 teachers,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Development, Small Schools, Rural Areas
Sears, David W., Ed.; Reid, J. Norman, Ed. – 1995
This book seeks to provide a basis for reexamining rural development policy by presenting comprehensive and current information on the effectiveness of various rural policy approaches. An introduction that defines development terminology and discusses changing policy needs is followed by 13 chapters that represent the best recent research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Basic Business Education, Change Strategies, Community Development
Stoddart, Jess – 2002
Founded in 1902 by Katherine Pettit and May Stone, the Hindman Settlement School in Knott County, Kentucky, grew out of the Progressive movement. During the golden age of the school, 1915-32, the reputation of its academic program, health work, and other settlement activities brought substantial renown and influence to the school and its founders.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Boarding Schools, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
Baker, Victoria J. – 1988
This book identifies the problems confronting formal education in a disadvantaged rural area of Sri Lanka. The book is organized in three parts. Part One provides the frame of reference and general background for the research. The first chapter outlines the existing theories on the role of education in developing countries and presents the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Development
Rowley, Thomas D., Ed.; And Others – 1996
This book addresses the need for research information that can be used as a foundation for rural development policy. Part I deals with the four components of rural development: education (human capital), entrepreneurship, physical infrastructure, and social infrastructure. Part II examines analytic methods of measuring rural development efforts,…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Development, Community Resources, Economic Development
DeYoung, Alan J. – 1991
This monograph draws on case studies of school-community partnership projects in four rural southeastern school districts in order to elaborate a thorough description of school contextual factors in the rural Southeast. In 1986, Appalachia Educational Labaoratory (AEL), one of nine federally funded research and development laboratories, received…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
