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Download full textOlson, Anthony – Rural Educator, 2021
In this essay, I explain how I switched the lens of my sophomore research unit to one that focuses on rural issues. This essay follows the unit from beginning to end. I explain what I do to raise awareness through the use of daily articles along with providing models for their own research. The essay then details the writing portion and how it has…
Descriptors: Rural Education, English Instruction, Secondary School Curriculum, Units of Study
Heyward, Georgia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2018
The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has been studying the four-day school week since 2015. Since then, the phenomenon of the four-day school week has spread into non-rural areas and interest appears to be growing. Given these apparent changes, the author wanted to know more about recent trends in the initiative. As districts continue…
Descriptors: School Schedules, School Districts, Rural Areas, Rural Schools
Direct linkNachtigal, Paul M. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019
The close-knit, personal nature of small rural communities results in school and community operating as a single integrated social structure. Useful rural school improvement strategies must, therefore, address needs that are recognized by both the local school and the community and must operate in a style congruent with the local setting. Although…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Areas, Educational Improvement, Change Strategies
Peer reviewedJess, James D. – Rural Educator, 1980
State equalization programs for school funding have been structured around variously weighted combinations of district wealth, tax effort and student need. For rural and small school districts, these programs have not always provided adequate financing. Nine rural school finance alternatives are suggested. (MH)
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Federal Aid
Baskerville, Roger A. – 1980
The 1979-1980 school year was the second year of operation for the Lohrville Career Education Model (LCEM) and the Toward Community Growth project, which was designed to provide rural Iowa high school students with occupational experience in their local areas in an effort to offset the out-migration of rural high school graduates and the lagging…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration
Baskerville, Roger A. – 1979
The Lohrville Career Education Model (LCEM) is a successful program to influence the decision of rural high school students to remain in the community after graduation and to help them examine local occupational opportunities and potential. The LCEM consists of a 7-unit course in local history, rural living, rural economy, rural attitudes,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration
Elliott, Judi – 1987
Identifying and describing students in rural schools who are at potential educational risk is the purpose of this study which involved extensive taped interviews with administrators, teachers and students in selected rural schools in Iowa. Various indicators of educational risk in selected rural environments suggest that students are decidedly…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Policy, Career Planning, Cooperative Programs
