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Funnemark-Clapper, Mickolyn E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Many small rural schools are facing a crisis of declining student populations and in the era of school choice, school districts are looking at innovative ways to attract and retain students. Research is limited on the qualitative experiences of people in communities who are focused on increasing inter-district open enrollment in K-12 schools as a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Open Enrollment, Rural Schools, Small Schools
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Herbst, Audrey – Educational Considerations, 2020
A country's productivity and economic competitiveness rely upon education, specifically postsecondary training which is fundamental to students' upward mobility in a thriving and progressive economic culture (Haunshek & Woessmann, 2012; Bailey et al., 2015). In order to maintain the economic stability of the United States for future…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Competition, Social Mobility, Rural Schools
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Tuters, Stephanie – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
This article describes a qualitative study which investigated how teachers made meaning of and responded to diversity in their rural school. While there is a large amount of information regarding how diversity plays out in urban settings and how teachers respond to it [e.g. Dei, G. J. S., I. M. James, L. L. Karumanchery, S. James-Wilson, and J.…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Cultural Differences, Qualitative Research, Elementary School Teachers
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Cherkowski, Sabre; Schnellert, Leyton – Teacher Development, 2018
This paper documents the first year of a qualitative case study investigating the experiences of reciprocal learning teams of teachers within a small, rural secondary school. The purpose of this study was to examine how teachers experienced collaborative professional development (PD) and how their experiences contributed to developing the culture…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teacher Collaboration, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Tamakloe, Deborah – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2018
Drawing on the Whole Schooling principles and Pierre Bourdieu's sociological concepts of habitus, capital and field, this qualitative case study explored and analysed preschool teachers' pedagogical behaviors and attitudes toward children with disabilities in three rural kindergartens in the Kpando district of Ghana. The study focused specifically…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Preschool Teachers, Social Capital, Teacher Student Relationship
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Jamil, Hazri; Arbaa, Rohani; Ahmad, Mohamad Zohir – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
This paper discussed a qualitative research findings on the case of Malaysian teachers employed their professional local knowledge for enhancing students' thinking skills in classroom practices. In this paper, a teacher's professional local knowledge is viewed as a teacher's professional knowledge and skills developed through the combination of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Knowledge Level, Teacher Characteristics
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Willis, Jill; Crosswell, Leanne; Morrison, Chad; Gibson, Andrew; Ryan, Mary – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2017
Many early-career teachers (ECTs) begin their teaching careers in rural and remote schools in Australia, and do not stay long, with consequences for their own lives, and for their students, schools and communities. By understanding how first-year ECTs navigate personal (subjective) and contextual (objective) conditions, opportunities to disrupt…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Rural Schools, Rural Education
Olsen, Dorian Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Background: Research on rural educational leadership is often overlooked in educational research, specifically within the context of homegrown leaders, or leaders who have been lifelong residents in the districts where they were students, teachers, and now lead as principal. Rural districts face many challenges that differ from urban districts.…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Administration, Transformational Leadership, Principals
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Hickey, Wesley D.; Sherman, Ross; Mize, Cody; Donley, Michael – School Leadership Review, 2019
There are 339 schools in Texas that are struggling, defined as "improvement required" by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) (txschools.gov, 2018) and received a "F" rating due to low academic performance. This designation is earned through a formula that measures general student achievement, school progress based on a comparison…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Academic Failure
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Baker, John; Chaseling, Marilyn; Boyd, William; Shipway, Bradley – Professional Development in Education, 2018
A Performance and Development Framework has been introduced by the New South Wales Department of Education, the largest provider of schooling in Australia, during a period of unparalleled reform. Engagement with the Framework is mandatory for all the Department's teachers, and is linked to improving student outcomes through enhanced teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Interviews, Teaching Experience
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Zuckerman, Sarah J.; Wicox, Kristen Campbell; Schiller, Kathryn S.; Durand, Francesca T. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2018
Rural schools have repeatedly been subjected to standardizing state and federal education policies that seek to minimize variance in instructional systems and increase the number of college- and career-ready graduates. The Race to the Top policy agenda combined standards-based and accountability-based reforms to meet these objectives and once…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Policy, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Ackley, Stacy – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this case study was to describe the experiences of rural school district leaders who implemented and have sustained a one-to-one technology program at the secondary level so to provide school districts considering one-to-one implementation knowledge of best practices. This study was a qualitative, bounded case study that used a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Best Practices, Program Implementation, Technology Integration
Ramos, Alani – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In a Southern state at a rural high school, leadership staff implemented phonics-based strategies with 9th grade English teachers to improve students' Lexile reading scores. The absence of formative data related to program implementation left stakeholders without a clear understanding of the influence of the phonics-based strategies. The purpose…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Phonics, Reading Instruction, Secondary School Students
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Esquivel, Johanna – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2020
This case study focuses on the diverse discourses Latinx bilingual students bring to class to make sense of power relations in the world. The study implements critical literacy practices such as read-alouds, discussions, writing, and drawing activities that help students critique and disrupt power discourses embedded in texts and visuals. With the…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Discourse Analysis, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Kellerman, Jessica; Evans, Rinelle; Graham, Marien Alet – South African Journal of Education, 2021
Despite less than 10% of South Africans claiming English as their home language, it has become the de facto language of instruction. Yet we cannot assume that teachers have sufficient command of this language when using it for instructional purposes. As a sub-study, in this article we report on the oral proficiency of isiZulu-speaking pre-service…
Descriptors: African Languages, Preservice Teachers, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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