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Download full textBritish Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2018
In many school districts, rural life in British Columbia continues to be a geographic and economic fact. Delivering equal school services and ensuring equal educational opportunities to areas with thinly scattered populations continues to be a challenge for the provincial government and school districts. Rural schools offer many positive benefits…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Rural Schools, Small Schools
Daly, Carson, Ed.; Stern, Joyce D., Ed. – 1989
This collection features 11 papers from a national symposium on rural education. The papers are consistent in noting that while there are common elements among all schools regardless of location, rural schools operate within a unique context. Several papers address the diversity of rural locales and the challenges educators face in such locales.…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Rural Areas
Hammer, Patricia Cahape – 2001
Karl N. Stauber proposes three goals for rural development policy: helping the rural middle class survive, reducing concentrated rural poverty, and sustaining and improving the quality of the natural environment. In contrast to other visions, he advises policy that focuses on rural places rather than rural economic sectors such as agriculture,…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Elementary Secondary Education, Human Capital, Place Based Education
Yaunches, Alison, Ed.; Loveland, Elaina, Ed. – Rural Roots, 2002
This document contains the six issues of "Rural Roots" published bimonthly in 2002. A newsletter of the Rural School and Community Trust, "Rural Roots" provides news, information, and commentary from the Rural Trust and highlights the wide variety of place-based education work happening in rural schools and communities across…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Mexican American Education, Place Based Education
Frankena, Frederick – 1984
Findings of a study to establish the determinants and effects of urban to rural population migration patterns in Osceola County, Michigan, where a 27.6% increase (4,090 people) occurred during the 1970's, illustrate typical effects of population migration turnaround on nonmetropolitan schools. The study revealed that school facilities were…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Parmley, Fran, Ed. – 1987
This collection of conference papers covers various aspects of rural education in changing times. The conference focused on changes and innovations in rural education and on reasons why rural educators can be optimistic. The proceedings report includes brief papers and workshop summaries on topics ranging from rural public relations to…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation, Educational Strategies
Rosenfeld, Stuart – Foresight, 1985
Contributions of rural high schools to their local economic climate are both underestimated and undervalued. Functions that high schools can and should perform in rural economic development today include providing occupational training to meet immediate labor market needs, raising community educational attainment levels to meet long-term…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economic Development, High Schools, Labor Force Development
Rios, Betty Rose D., Comp. – 1986
Organizations and programs with a major emphasis in rural education and small schools are listed in this directory. The entries--derived from a survey conducted in late 1985 and early 1986--are listed alphabetically by state within national, regional, state, and university categories. A brief description of the activity's function is followed by…
Descriptors: Conferences, Elementary Secondary Education, Females, Foreign Countries
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1976
Compiled to provide access to some of the latest resource material, research findings, and/or developments in rural education, this bibliography supplements six previous publications, providing cumulative coverage. Part I of this supplement contains 267 citations and abstracts taken from the April 1975 through March 1976 issues of "Resources…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Citation Indexes, Developing Nations
Safra, Martine – 1994
The rural areas in the world are experiencing an identity crisis: for example, in France some areas are losing population, while those that are growing find that the population is changing from agricultural workers to retired persons and blue-collar and white-collar employees. This report, which summarizes discussion at a recent Organisation for…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Finance, Educational Policy
Hall, William D. – 1985
The thematic, integrated subject curriculum presented in this comprehensive teacher's guide is based on a study of Gallatin County's local history and is intended to enrich students' perceptions of their rural Montana culture, heritage, and environment, and provide them with a knowledge base for decision making about the future. Introductory…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Horn, Jerry, Ed.; Parmley, Fran, Ed. – 1986
This collection of 5 major papers and 32 abstracts covers a range of issues surrounding rural education. In the first paper, Glen Shaw, a rural Minnesota schools administrator, contends economic and technological changes have threatened rural jobs and the rural way of life. Anecdotes and statistics are employed to define rural problems and to urge…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Administration, Educational Assessment
BOHRSON, RALPH G. – 1962
APPROXIMATELY 176 BOOKS AND ARTICLES PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1912 AND 1961 ARE LISTED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY ON RURAL EDUCATION AND THE SMALL SCHOOL. EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON GENERAL REFERENCES, BUT ABOUT ONE QUARTER OF THE LISTINGS ARE PLACED UNDER SPECIFIC SUBJECT HEADINGS SUCH AS BUILDINGS, CONSOLIDATION, LIBRARY SERVICE, ETC. THE ENTRIES ARE…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Buildings, Business Education, Community
Jess, James D., Ed. – 1979
The problems, challenges, and opportunities of rural education are the focus of the fourteen speeches and nine workshops presented at the second annual conference on rural education, held February 1-2, 1979, in Des Moines, Iowa. Conference proceedings are presented in this newsletter in transcript or summary form. Speeches cover the topics of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Conference Reports, Consolidated Schools, Educational Administration
Edington, Everett D. – 1979
Historically, urban and suburban interests have dominated educational policy at the national level, but recognition of the need for federal rural education policy is growing. Effective educational policy for rural people, who account for one-third of the U. S. population, must consider the distinctive characteristics of rural areas. Vast cultural…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Consolidated Schools, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
