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Download full textCole, Robert – 1989
This ERIC digest presents an overview of small-scale schooling in an international context; examines demographic data, staffing problems, and incentives used in other nations; and points out the distinctive characteristics and unique value and potential of small schools in both industrialized and developing nations. Rural school populations remain…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Smith, Daryl G. – 1989
For years, researchers have forecast the increasing diversification of students in higher education as a result of changing demographics and a variety of other social and economic shifts. The diverse elements of today's student body include differing age, gender, ethnic and racial backgrounds, and increasing numbers of differently able and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, College Faculty, Cultural Pluralism
Howley, Craig B., Ed.; Eckman, John M., Ed. – 1997
This book aims to help parents, community members, and educators find resources, design school options, and take action together to improve small rural schools in ways that meet community and student needs. Chapter 1 discusses the virtues of smallness, outlines basic assumptions about the role and nature of good education, examines the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Community Schools, Educational Change
