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Anglum, J. Cameron – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
In rural school districts across the country, four-day school weeks have proliferated. Currently adopted in 1,600 schools in 600 school districts, 90% of which are rural, four-day school week policies have prospered largely without a robust body of evidence to support their expansion. J. Cameron Anglum presents an overview of four-day school week…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Rural Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Linda F. Nathan; Lydia Cochrane; Ayesha Hoda – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
School leaders Lydia Cochrane and Ayesha Hoda have struggled to meet the increasingly complex needs of the students in their schools. As students' needs increase, schools are asked to do more and more, while continuing to have strong academic results. Cochrane and Hoda believe the current system is untenable and needs to change. With Linda Nathan,…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Models
Lakin, Joni M.; Stambaugh, Tamra; Ihrig, Lori M.; Mahatmya, Duhita; Assouline, Susan G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Rural schools, especially smaller ones, offer enormous opportunities for teachers to get to know their students and to cultivate their academic talents. However, students with potential in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) face specific obstacles to having their talents fully realized in rural schools. Joni Lakin, Tamra…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Talent Development, STEM Education, Barriers
Brenner, Devon; Azano, Amy Price; Downey, Jayne – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Among the many challenges facing rural administrators, recruiting and retaining teachers is often at the top of the list. Given the time and energy they must invest to successfully attract, recruit, and hire a new teacher, there is a significant need to adopt strategies that will help to retain those new teachers. Rural administrators can support…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Rural Schools, Teacher Motivation
White, Rachel S.; Evans, Michael P.; Malin, Joel R. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
Media reports have shown suburban school officials being threatened and school board meetings erupting into chaos. Rachel S. White, Michael P. Evans, and Joel R. Malin examine whether these politically contentious experiences are occurring everywhere, or if there is something distinct about the contentiousness suburban superintendents face.…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, Suburbs, Political Attitudes, Superintendents
Ingersoll, Richard M.; Tran, Henry – Phi Delta Kappan, 2023
There is much alarm about the current teacher shortage resulting from the pandemic and its aftermath. But teacher shortages have long been a perennial issue in K-12 education. Researchers Richard Ingersoll and Henry Tran analyzed data from the National Center of Education Statistics to compare rural schools to urban and suburban schools to…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Rural Urban Differences
Hargreaves, Andy; O'Connor, Michael T. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2018
For decades, education researchers have been drawing attention to the importance of professional collaboration among teachers as a way to improve student achievement. But not all collaboration is equally effective. Andy Hargreaves and Michael O'Connor explain that the most successful and sustainable efforts are characterized by both solidity and…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Professionalism, Expertise, Collegiality
Brown, Lyn Mikel; Flaumenhaft, Jenny – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Lyn Mikel Brown and Jenny Flaumenhaft describe the use of student-centered principles to engage in curricular reform in an under-resourced rural elementary school. With a specific focus on student empowerment and self-determination, and in collaboration with students and teachers, Transforming Rural Experience in Education (TREE) integrated…
Descriptors: Student Empowerment, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Rural Schools
Ben-Porath, Sigal – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
Historically, debates about educational choice have wrestled with big, unresolved tensions that lie at the heart of American life, having to do with individual rights, community obligations, public and private interests, religious freedoms, and more. But in recent years, school reformers have tended to talk about choice as though it referred only…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Charter Schools, Private Schools
Weiss, Elaine – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Rural poverty rises to higher levels than poverty in urban and suburban areas, and rural communities and their schools face greater isolation, which means that families must travel farther than their urban and suburban counterparts to access available services and learning opportunities. Elaine Weiss describes two rural communities, one in…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Poverty, Rural Education, Access to Education
Moore, Renee – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
Teachers in rural, black schools understood their communities and their students and provided lessons that are still relevant today. The three main lessons are to learn and use culturally appropriate teaching, initiate and maintain mutually respectful community connections, and expect great things from every student.
Descriptors: Rural Schools, African American Students, Teacher Role, Culturally Relevant Education
Brown, Stephanie; Allen, Annie – Phi Delta Kappan, 2021
In the past decade, research-practice partnerships (RPPs) have grown in number and reputation. Stephanie Brown and Annie Allen describe the varied ways partnerships facilitate more sustained and productive relationships between researchers and practitioners. They share key findings from a comparative case study of three different types of RPPs…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Improvement
Garbe, Gary E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
A schoolwide class called Excursions helped a rural Wisconsin school create an environment where everyone could achieve whatever they were comfortable achieving without the restrictions of time. The purpose of an Excursion is to provide students the ability to take charge of their own learning, reflect on what they do, evaluate their work, make…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Educational Environment, Cooperation, Inquiry
Marshall, Joanne M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2012
The Boone Hope Foundation has given away over $130,000 in gift cards, rent checks, and eyeglasses--all targeted to help students with emergency needs related to food, clothing, shelter, and healthcare in its rural Iowa community. This is the story of teachers from a typical Midwestern school--relatively small and certainly not affluent--who have…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Student Needs, Homeless People
Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
About 15% of the nation's high schools produce more than "half of its dropouts" and close to "75% of its minority dropouts." Half of these schools are found primarily in the cities of the North, Midwest, and West. The other half are found throughout the South and Southwest in urban, suburban, and rural areas. If only a very few students were not…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Rural Areas, High School Students
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