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Seelig, Jennifer – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
As part of an ethnographic study of one rural school-community relationship, this paper explores how school and community leaders conceive of the purpose of schooling in their community, delineates the educational policies and practices that support this purpose, and offers insight into the implications of such a purpose. Adding to the rural…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Rural Areas, School Community Relationship, Community Development
European Students' Union, 2016
The present joint action programme is proposed by the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU), the European Students' Union (ESU), and Education International (EI) to their members and partners, in order to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 related goals, which the United Nations adopted in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Higher Education, Access to Education
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Brown, Phillip; Tannock, Stuart – Journal of Education Policy, 2009
Talk of the rise of a global war for talent and emergence of a new global meritocracy has spread from the literature on human resource management to shape nation-state discourse on managed migration and immigration reform. This article examines the implications that the global war for talent have for education policy. Given that this talent war is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Justice, Social Justice, Sociology
Carr, Patrick J.; Kefalas, Maria J. – School Administrator, 2010
Things are not going so well in small-town America. While the so-called "Great Recession" of the moment has focused considerable attention on the travails of Main Street and Middle America, the truth is that the troubles that plague such places have been a long time in the making. For the past 30 years, nonmetropolitan counties and the…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Brain Drain, Young Adults
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Brown, Frank – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
Public education in America continues to be viewed as being worthy of major investments to improve the county's economic position in the world. But quality education for many Americans is still not within their reach. Fifty years after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" eliminating legal segregation of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Impact, Global Approach, School Desegregation
Lawrence, Barbara Kent – 1999
Two concepts have been confused: equality of opportunity and equality of ability, which has led us to link intellectual giftedness with elitism. This linkage undercuts the ability to nurture and benefit from the gifts of the gifted, an important issue in rural places experiencing either withering economies and loss of population or an influx of…
Descriptors: Anti Intellectualism, Brain Drain, Cognitive Dissonance, Community Attitudes