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Ellis, Kaci; Gage, Nicholas A.; Kramer, Dennis; Baton, Emily; Angelosante, Courtney – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2022
Positive school climate is associated with myriad positive student, staff, and school outcomes, including increased achievement and decreased problem behavior. Hence, universal evidence-based practices are necessary to increase school climate. One universal approach with evidence of effects on school climate is School-Wide Positive Behavior…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Positive Behavior Supports
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Chesters, Jenny; Cuervo, Hernan – Australian Educational Researcher, 2022
Since 1990, the Australian higher education system has experienced ongoing reform resulting in the number of universities and student populations more than doubling. Despite this expansion, inequalities in access to higher education related to family background and location persist. Due to the concentration of higher education campuses in the…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Rural Areas, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries
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Leech, Nancy L.; Haug, Carolyn A.; Rodriguez, Eleanor; Gold, Molly – Rural Educator, 2022
Retaining teachers is a problem in all districts but is especially difficult in rural areas. This survey research asked teachers in a western state to respond to open ended questions regarding their choice for teaching in a rural or urban area. Results indicate teachers work in a rural locale because they grew up in the area, already lived there…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Persistence, Educational Environment
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Nigg, Carina; Weber, Christoph; Schipperijn, Jasper; Reichert, Markus; Oriwol, Doris; Worth, Annette; Woll, Alexander; Niessner, Claudia – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Background: Urban and rural areas have been experiencing major demographic and structural changes, characterized by an aging population in rural areas and a growth of cities in number and size. However, it is poorly researched how children's physical activity and screen time developed in urban and rural areas. To address this deficit, we…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Children, Physical Activity Level, Trend Analysis
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Hsu, Yuu-Hueih; Chen, Chi-Wen; Lin, Yuh-Jyh; Li, Chung-Yi – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is reportedly more prevalent in urban areas partly because of better accessibility and affordability to healthcare. With universal health insurance coverage in Taiwan, a previous study has shown no urban-rural disparity in the utilization rate of a child's preventive healthcare. Under this circumstance, we followed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Rural Urban Differences, Clinical Diagnosis
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Guo, Jiangying; Chen, Jiwei – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
China's higher education expansion policy implemented in 1999 has substantially increased higher education opportunities. This paper investigates whether rural students do benefit more from the expansion policy and achieve educational equity between urban and rural areas. Based on the four waves of nationwide micro survey data, collected in 2000,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Development, Equal Education
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Li, Guirong; Zhang, Xinwu; Liu, Delei; Xue, Hao; Hu, Derek; Lee, Oliver; Rilling, Chris; Ma, Yue; Abbey, Cody; Fairlie, Robert; Loyalka, Prashant; Rozelle, Scott – Comparative Education Review, 2023
In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, many education systems have relied on distance learning and educational technologies to an unprecedented degree. However, rigorous empirical research on the impacts on learning under these conditions is still scarce. We present the first large-scale, quantitative evidence detailing how school closures affected…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Adonteng-Kissi, Obed – Child Care in Practice, 2023
There is nearly universal consensus that child labour is harmful to the development of the child, however, widespread contention exists on whether child labour is cultural or economic necessity. This paper aimed to ascertain parental perceptions of the nature of child labour in rural and urban Ghana. The sample size of this study was 60…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Child Labor
Meena, Daisy; Lakshmi, Y. Vijaya – Online Submission, 2023
In the formal education system, teaching-learning is a process where teacher is actively engaged in providing quality education to the learners. Teacher is the only one who can recognize and identify the unique capabilities of the students. In a diverse classroom, every student is different from others, keeping this in mind, a teacher has to…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Multiple Intelligences
Benjamin Clinton Wayne Knuffman Brewer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study analysis is intended to outline the challenges associated with primary education for a student with Cerebral Palsy (CP). The study then compares the difference between the delivery of education for cerebral palsy students at a rural and urban school as well as a regional best practice facility such as "Easter…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cerebral Palsy, Trauma, Role
Jardinella, Kira – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teachers are among the most critical stakeholders within the school community. Effective teachers are needed to provide students with a quality education and to prepare them for success both in and out of the classroom (Miller et al., 2020). Almost half of all teachers leave the profession within their first five years of teaching. In Florida, 40%…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Rural Schools, School Districts, Rural Urban Differences
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Li Zhao; Yue Liu; Yu-Sheng Su – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
The digital skills divide has been raised as a serious issue during the COVID-19. However, few studies explored the predictive influence of personality traits on college students' digital skills in online learning. To address this gap, this study took the second-level digital divide as the focus to conduct a two-round survey of college students…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Rural Urban Differences, College Students, Electronic Learning
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Chiriac, Mona Lissa; Ia?u, Corneliu – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2023
As complex global challenges threaten our children's future, there is little international debate that schools must foster education for sustainable development (ESD) by unpacking sustainable development (SD) themes and stimulating (meta)cognitive growth towards higher-order epistemological stances conducive of innovation and transformation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Knowledge Level, Sustainable Development
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Simmons, Michelle L.; Shin, Mikyung; Sharp, Laurie A. – Texas Education Review, 2021
Special education policy impacts education equity. More specifically, special education policy surrounding the identification of students with disabilities and the provision of instructional support services to students identified as having a disability has experienced critical public attention and landmark federal and state mandates for reform…
Descriptors: Special Education, Eligibility, Disability Identification, Rural Urban Differences
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Sanfo, Jean-Baptiste M. B.; Ogawa, Keiichi – Education Economics, 2021
The rural-urban learning achievements gap is a persistent issue to be addressed from a different approach. This study employed re-centered influence function decomposition with Young Lives data to estimate the rural-urban education production function and decompose the rural-urban learning achievements gap in Ethiopia. Results revealed that the…
Descriptors: Rural Urban Differences, Achievement Gap, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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