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Arnold, Peter – Education in Rural Australia, 2001
In Australia, government-funded equity programs have positively impacted the equality of rural schooling, but persistent issues remain. A literature review examines positive and negative features of rural schooling related to teachers, school size, academic achievement, completion rates, curriculum, lifestyle, and social justice. (Contains 66…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Needs, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
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Brennan, Marie – Education in Rural Australia, 2006
Australia has long been of interest for its attention to educational equity by the relative quality of its state based provision of schooling in a country with a similar landmass to the 48 mainland states of the USA but a population of only 18 million. The six states and two territories had organised centralised systems of schooling which managed…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Change, Guidelines, Rural Areas