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Nowakowski, Jeri; And Others – 1988
This evaluation summary synthesizes the results of the first year of the Wisconsin Rural Reading Improvement Project (WRRIP), a project aimed at helping small, rural schools improve reading instruction by teaching reading as thinking (also termed "strategic reading"). The means used is staff development: specifically, a leadership team…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Program Evaluation
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Sutton, Joe P.; Nowacek, E. Jane; Capone, Angela M.; Hausman, Ralph M.; Stoiber, Karen C.; Tindal, Gerald A. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2003
Rural learners represent a diverse and significant part of the student population. Although research shows that the overall percentage and types of students with disabilities are similar in rural and non-rural school districts, greater proportions of rural students live in poverty, which places them at higher risk for disability. This article…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Areas, Rural Education, Geographic Location