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Download full textGoetz, Kathy, Ed. – Family Resource Coalition Report, 1992
This "special focus" journal issue consists of 13 individual articles on the theme of rural family programs relating to school, health services, church, and other institutions. It includes: (1) "Towards a Rural Family Policy" (Judith K. Chynoweth and Michael D. Campbell); (2) "Montana: Council for Families Collaborates for…
Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Extension Education, Family Problems
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1988
This bulletin explores sociological and technological problems encountered in a project undertaken by the East Devon College of Further Education using an audio teleconferencing system to deliver community college courses to the rural unemployed in English villages. The project team identified the characteristics of several types of rural Devon…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Santiago (Chile). Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. – 1986
The Major Project in the Field of Education stresses renewed and intensive efforts by Latin American and Caribbean Island countries to provide the resources and training necessary to meet basic education needs by the year 2000. This document examines project achievements, innovations, and problems through 1986 in the areas of rural education,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Bilingual Education
Yaunches, Alison, Ed.; Loveland, Elaina, Ed. – Rural Roots, 2002
This document contains the six issues of "Rural Roots" published bimonthly in 2002. A newsletter of the Rural School and Community Trust, "Rural Roots" provides news, information, and commentary from the Rural Trust and highlights the wide variety of place-based education work happening in rural schools and communities across…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Mexican American Education, Place Based Education
Beeson, Elizabeth, Ed. – Rural Policy Matters, 2002
This document contains the 12 issues of "Rural Policy Matters" published in 2002. Issues examine recent educational research on small and rural schools; report on court litigation related to rural school finance and educational adequacy, resources for community action in support of rural schools, and outcomes of school consolidation;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Activism, Advocacy, Court Litigation
Benefits2, 1999
This is the first of a series of issue papers that discuss ways in which rural communities and schools can work together to guarantee their students the best education possible. By working together, rural schools and communities can not only improve education, but revitalize the entire community. The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory is…
Descriptors: Community Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Entrepreneurship, Partnerships in Education
Collins, Timothy; Dewees, Sarah – Rural South: Preparing for the Challenges of the 21st Century, 2001
Technological advances have equipped educational institutions with the capability to take classes to the student. Higher education institutions throughout the South are upgrading existing wide-area networks connecting buildings and campuses to create statewide "backbones" that will serve primary and secondary schools, libraries, offices,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Journal of the Assembly of Rural Teachers of English (ARTE), 1993
The 1993 issue of this annual journal contains five articles about rural education by rural English teachers. "Rural: The Only Place To Be" (Craig Akey) speaks of a personal commitment to rural education, presents examples of prose and poetry by junior and senior high school students in an innovative "outdoor literature"…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Rural Policy Matters, 2001
This document contains the 11 issues of the newsletter "Rural Policy Matters" published in 2001. Issues examine recent educational research on small and rural schools; report on court litigation related to rural school finance, local advocacy efforts in support of rural schools, and the condition of rural school facilities; outline policy issues…
Descriptors: Activism, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Facilities Improvement
Benson, Chris, Ed. – Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network Magazine, 1999
This serial issue contains 11 articles all on the theme of "Teaching with Technology", specifically about how teachers in the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network (BLRTN) are using computers, the Internet, and various audiovisual technologies in the classroom. BLRTN consists of approximately 200 rural teachers in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Benson, Chris, Ed. – Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network Magazine, 1999
This serial issue contains nine articles all on the subject of "changing practice," i.e., innovative practices of rural English teachers in the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network. "Byte-ing into Medieval Literature" (John Fyler) describes an online conference on medieval literature for rural high school students. "Literacy…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Collegiality, Educational Practices, English Teachers
The ERIC Review, 1991
"The ERIC Review" announces research results, publications, and new programs relevant to each issue's theme topic. This second issue contains three principal articles: "Issues in Adult Literacy Education," by JoAnn Crandall and Susan Imel; "Emergent Literacy: An Early Reading and Writing Concept," by Carl B. Smith;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Emergent Literacy, Family Literacy
Frank, Mary, Ed. – Children in Contemporary Society, 1980
The contemporary rural population, comprising one-quarter of the nation's total, is diverse. Hence, no single label can be applied to its inhabitants, its families, or its children. This collection of articles, highlighted with drawings by five year old rural residents, describes adaptations to modern American life made by three types of rural…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Children, Community Change, Demography
Bernard van Leer Foundation Newsletter, 1995
This newsletter issue focuses on programming undertaken to address the health and educational needs of rural families in developing and developed nations. After examining the nature of rural families and rural poverty, the newsletter discusses: (1) the Mon Women's Organization in Thailand; (2) The "Contact With Kids" parent education…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Child Development, Childrens Television, Developed Nations
Spears, Jacqueline D. – Rural Clearinghouse Digest, 1994
Rural counties are among both the most and the least ethnically diverse, conditions that offer different but equally compelling rationales for multicultural education. Diverse communities need to acknowledge their cultural wealth, creating community structures that respect differences and build on the strengths of each culture. Homogeneous…
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Change Strategies, Cultural Awareness
