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Download full textYvon, Bernard R., Comp. – 1971
The aim of the Rural Improvement Project of Maine from Spring, 1969-Fall, 1970 was to improve the quality of rural education through an innovative attempt to utilize specialized, trained personnel (Cooperating Rural Resource Teachers; associate teachers; teacher aides; 3 undergraduate teachers; and an elementary guidance counselor) and to…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Quality, Elementary Education, Learning Motivation
Hutchins, Leonard – Echoes: The Northern Maine Journal, 1994
The author reminisces about his childhood during World War II and the impact the war had on the rural community in which he lived. During wartime, children worked on farms after school and during the summer, commodities were rationed, and communities took part in air-raid drills. School lessons revolved around the war's events. (LP)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Economic Impact
Renaud, Linda; Silk, Lynn – 1994
"Tall Tales on Tour" consists of a mobile unit of books, posters, puppets, plays, videos, teachers' guides and other resources designed to kindle enthusiasm and love for tall tales in students in grades 3-8 and to establish links with rural Washington County, Maine, schools. The program consists of three main components: (1) immersing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach, Program Descriptions
