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Direct linkClay, Matthew A. – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2021
In this study, I utilized participant photography to understand what types of student success were recognized by educators in two rural school districts. Participants placed an intense emphasis on relationships within the community and moral aims of schooling in both the types of success and the ways in which success were recognized. These…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Rural Schools, School Districts, Success
Download full textRauscher, Emily – AERA Open, 2020
The U.S. Department of Education made recent technical changes reducing eligibility for the Rural and Low-Income School Program. Given smaller budgets and lower economies of scale, rural districts may be less able to absorb short-term funding cuts and experience stronger negative achievement effects. Kansas implemented a state-level finance change…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Academic Achievement, Rural Schools, Budgeting
Augustine-Shaw, Donna – Rural Educator, 2016
Understanding the context of rural school settings is critical to beginning school district leaders. Rural communities present multifaceted challenges that leaders must embrace as diverse community expectations unfold. The majority of Kansas school districts are in rural settings. Mentoring and induction shapes the experiences encountered during…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, Superintendents, Capacity Building
Headden, Susan – Education Sector, 2012
Educational achievement in rural America is one of the country's great overlooked challenges. Rural students achieve below the U.S. average on national tests, and high school dropout rates are higher and college attendance lower than they are in cities and suburbs. When the U.S. Department of Education asks low-achieving schools to be turned…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropouts, College Attendance, Charter Schools
Englert, Kerry; Barley, Zoe A. – Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), 2008
This study examined differences in nine factors between a group of the highest-performing needs high schools (HPHN) and a group of the lowest performing high-needs (LPHN) high schools using teacher responses from a national dataset. The factors are: (1) shared mission and goals; (2) professional development; (3) collaboration among teachers (4)…
Descriptors: High Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Institutional Mission, Goal Orientation
PDF pending restorationBarker, Bruce O.; Muse, Ivan D. – 1983
Comparisons between 35 small/rural K-12 Kansas school districts (900 students or fewer) and 642 similar districts nationwide use data gathered during 1982-83. Qualifying Kansas districts (208, enrolling 95,466 students) were identified, to be compared to 4,125 qualifying districts nationwide. A questionnaire mailed to superintendents of 36…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrators, Comparative Analysis, Courses
