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Alan A. Tomson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this Action Research project was to understand the educational needs of the underserved communities in rural Appalachia and to significantly enhance the fairness of currently limited access to Mountain Institute STEM Academy (MISA) STEM seminar programs. Cycle 1 research was conducted with STEM faculty from two rural Appalachian…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, STEM Education
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Haley R. Ault; Kody Sexton; Melinda M. Gibbons; Mary K. Wynn; Robert A. Lange – Professional School Counseling, 2024
Rural Appalachia encompasses a region of the United States represented by unique cultural strengths and systemic challenges. To meet their students' career and college needs, school counselors working in rural Appalachia must understand the cultural nuances of the region. Consensual qualitative research (CQR) methodology revealed five domains and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Schools, School Counselors, High School Students
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Matsolo Mokhampanyane – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
In this empirical paper, we discuss teachers' capabilities in implementing inclusive education. The background to this paper is that teachers have challenges in implementing inclusive education in South African primary schools. The study is underpinned by critical emancipatory research (CER), which advocates for peace, hope, equality, freedom, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Teacher Competencies, Barriers
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Christiana K. Kfouri; Marjorie W. Rowe – Rural Educator, 2024
Multilingual learners (MLs) represent a substantial, growing segment of the PreK--12 population, including in rural areas. Several forces contribute to the increase of ML students in rural schools (e.g., immigrant labor, refugee crises). As we undergo a major cultural shift from a society that was (misguidedly) viewed as monolingual to one that is…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Rural Schools, Curriculum Development, Teacher Education
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Sufirman Arifin; Nyet Moi Siew – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2024
Fostering creative thinking in facilitating teaching and learning (TL) of entrepreneurship and STEM at the secondary schools is sparsely documented in the literature and warrants further Inquiry. Thus, this research aimed to assess secondary school students' entrepreneurial STEM creative thinking (E-STEM[superscript CT]). A comprehensive…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, STEM Education, Creative Thinking, Secondary School Students
Doris Nicole Glass – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Enrollment in traditional special education teacher preparation programs has declined while enrollment in alternative preparation programs has increased in Georgia (Georgia Insights, 2024). Since alternative preparation programs have become the viable recruitment vein for rural schools challenged to fill special education teaching vacancies,…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Alternative Teacher Certification, Rural Schools
Trese L. W. Reed – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research study examined the difference between a formal pre-kindergarten (pre-K) experience and a non-formal pre-kindergarten experience and the impact it had on the academic achievement of kindergarten students. The study also examined the impact these experiences had on kindergarten students as it relates to the Phonological Awareness…
Descriptors: Literacy, Phonological Awareness, Screening Tests, Preschool Children
Cassandra L. Doty – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The number of formal teacher leadership roles, notably as instructional coaches and Professional Learning Community leaders, continued to increase. Rural school districts needed to improve their ability to create these roles. Additionally, researchers indicated many teachers preferred to avoid working with formal teacher leaders. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Instructional Leadership, Social Networks, Self Efficacy
Lindsey Nicole Long – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact, if any, the implementation of Personalized Learning (PL) would have on fourth-grade students in a rural public elementary school in the area of reading achievement, mastery, and progress. The study compared two cohorts of students. The control group received traditional learning reading…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Reading Achievement
Robert Jason Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative research study was to determine if differences exist in academic achievement based on student SES as measured by grade point average (GPA), credit hours earned, and completion of the academic year for rural community college students enrolled during the 2018-19 academic year. The study used existing data from a…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Rural Schools, Outcomes of Education, Rural Education
Jessica Newby – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of burnout among teachers of special education students in rural schools, focusing on understanding the factors that contribute to burnout and the strategies that can mitigate its effects. The study used a qualitative research design to interview teachers from a rural Board of Cooperative Educational…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Influences, Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities
Cynthia Ward – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite the number of students and the growing diversity of the students served by rural districts, a lack of research exists on rural district systems to support the continuous improvement of schools. The lack of understanding around systems for rural district improvement stands to exacerbate long-standing inequities for rural communities. Using…
Descriptors: School Districts, Rural Schools, Educational Improvement, Student Diversity
Asche, Kelly – Center for Rural Policy and Development, 2023
Increasing education funding is a topic of discussion every year at the Minnesota State Legislature. In January, Governor Tim Walz proposed a 4% increase to the basic education formula allowance within the K-12 general education revenue program, the "education formula" that determines the majority of funding school districts receive from…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Rural Schools, Funding Formulas
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Knipe, Sally; Bottrell, Christine – Journal of Global Education and Research, 2023
Educational and socioeconomic disadvantage in remote communities, and the inadequacies of government action to bring about significant change needs to be addressed. This article presents a descriptive study examining the complexities of staffing remote and very remote schools in Australia with appropriately-qualified teachers. The findings of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Rural Areas, Indigenous Populations
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Murphy, Steve – Australian Educational Researcher, 2023
The limited research into leading STEM education in rural schools internationally tends to adopt a deficit view, with a focus on the poor achievement and aspirations of rural students, difficulties recruiting and retaining STEM teachers, and issues of isolation and under-resourcing. Counter to this trend, this paper reports on research…
Descriptors: Leadership, STEM Education, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries
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