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Digital Literacies Learning Needs in Rural Ontario Elementary Schools: Teacher Insights
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Michelle Schira Hagerman; Sima Neisary – Canadian Journal of Education, 2024
Despite known inequalities of digital access in rural Canada, we know little about the foundational digital literacies learning needs of students attending rural elementary schools. This exploratory case study, conducted in Ontario, presents 13 rural-serving Grade 4-6 teachers' insights on the access needs and digital literacies learning needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Grade 4
Arabic Language Skills: A Comparative Study of Community and Government Schools in Rural Upper-Egypt
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Langsten, Ray; Abdelkhalek, Fatma; Hassan, Tahra – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
Egypt has long promised quality basic education. Nevertheless, international and national assessments show poor reading skills. Community schools (CS) are a component of Egypt's Education for All strategy. CS were intended to offer quality education to children who otherwise would have no chance to complete primary school. Previous studies report…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabic, Language Skills, Public Schools
STEM Excellence and Leadership Program: Increasing the Level of STEM Challenge and Engagement for High-Achieving Students in Economically Disadvantaged Rural Communities
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Ihrig, Lori M.; Lane, Erin; Mahatmya, Duhita; Assouline, Susan G. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2018
High-achieving students in economically disadvantaged, rural schools lack access to advanced coursework necessary to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational and employment goals at the highest levels, contributing to the excellence gap. Out-of-school STEM programming offers one pathway to students' talent…
Descriptors: STEM Education, High Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Rural Areas
Early Adolescent Peer Ecologies in Rural Communities: Bullying in Schools that Do and Do Not Have a Transition during the Middle Grades
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Farmer, Thomas W.; Hamm, Jill V.; Leung, Man-Chi; Lambert, Kerrylin; Gravelle, Maggie – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
The transition to middle school is considered to be a heightened period for involvement in bullying because the lack of a defined dominance hierarchy is thought to promote jockeying for social positions among students. Accordingly, this study examined bullying in peer ecologies at the beginning of the middle grade years in rural schools that did…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Middle Schools, Bullying, Peer Relationship
Results of a Rural School-Based Peer-Led Intervention for Youth: Goals for Health
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Forneris, Tanya; Fries, Elizabeth; Meyer, Aleta; Buzzard, Marilyn; Uguy, Samy; Ramakrishnan, Ramesh; Lewis, Carol; Danish, Steven – Journal of School Health, 2010
Background: School-based interventions are critical for enhancing the health of youth. The "Goals for Health (GFH)" school-based project was a goal-setting and life-skills intervention conducted in rural areas to increase self-efficacy, knowledge, and positive behaviors related to healthy eating. The intervention was peer-led with high…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Intervention, Self Efficacy, Eating Habits
Strategies to Affect Student Sensory Awareness of the Environment in a Rural Schools Setting: Grade Four through Grade Six.
Peters, Richard O. – 1976
Describing the Union 58 Experimental Schools Program (ESP) in northern, rural New Hampshire, this curriculum guide presents the concept of "proximity congruency" as a means for developing elementary level (grades four through six) student sensory awareness of the environment in outdoor and/or environmental education procedures. Proximity…
Descriptors: Activities, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives