This research is an examination of the instructional leadership practices of effective rural superintendents who oversee school districts in small, rural school districts in the most northern New England states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The study looked at the successful leadership practices of school district superintendents who have…

For many years, researchers attempted to prove that the use of technology would improve student achievement (Morrison, 1994). Many of these assertions prompted researchers to "test" the effectiveness of these various technologies by comparing a technology such as television or computers to a teacher teaching. While a number of…

The relationship between class size and scholastic outcomes is addressed in this paper. A literature review focuses on the research of Glass and Smith (1978) and Larkin and Keeves (1984). Contradictory and inconclusive research findings about teacher effectiveness in relation to class size indicate that emphasis should be placed on training…