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Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, Los Alamitos, CA. – 1979
Tabular and narrative material highlight accomplishments of a three-year Basic Skills Learning Centers (BSLC) Project, which was designed to provide nonurban elementary schools in 20 western states with materials and technical assistance to improve remedial instruction in reading and mathematics. A section on project structure and history…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, Basic Reading, Basic Skills
HIGHTOWER, GRACE; AND OTHERS – 1966
TWO OF THE MAJOR HANDICAPS TO GOOD RURAL SCHOOL LIBRARY PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN INADEQUATE FINANCES AND SMALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS. THROUGH RECENT FEDERAL ASSISTANCE, REORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS, ESTABLISHMENT OF INTERMEDIATE UNITS, AND OTHER MEANS OF COOPERATING ACROSS DISTRICT LINES, RURAL SCHOOL LIBRARY PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN IMPROVED. A GOOD SCHOOL LIBRARY…
Descriptors: Administration, Ancillary School Services, Audiovisual Communications, County School Districts
Rask, Glen – 1979
The Colorado Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) model was tested in 1978-79 in three rural sites and one urban site utilizing both alternative and infused program approaches. (The modified Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory EBCE model focuses on exploration for grades 7-10.) Evaluation was designed to evaluate three program components…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Surveys
North Dakota State Board for Vocational Education, Bismarck. – 1970
Presented are the proceedings of three concurrent training institutes conducted to better prepare professional workers in vocational education to meet the needs of rural disadvantaged students through secondary, postsecondary, and adult vocational education programs in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Included are the program objectives,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Planning, Disadvantaged
Warren, Donald R.; Way, Harold N. – 1973
Research is presented exploring the individual programing practices at both Pamlico High School and Pamlico Technical Institute, Pamlico County, North Carolina and possible means by which the two institutions could better coordinate articulation of their occupational education program activities. The two institutions offer the only available…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College School Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Download full textOlsen, James B.; Wright, William J. – 1976
The Rural Education Program (REP) of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) is developing a strategy for involving rural communities and school systems in a systematic problem solving process. This Rural Futures Development (RFD) Strategy is based on the theoretical works of such people as Havelock, Lippit, Bales, Williamson,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Content Analysis
Southeastern Education Lab., Atlanta, GA. – 1970
In 1968, this inservice training program was designed to assist administrators of rural school districts and economically poor districts in alleviating educational disadvantagement in the Southeast and in the nation. In proposal writing, it is suggested that this manual on the inservice training program would be used to best advantage in…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Contracts, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Chamberlain, Jonathan M. – 1970
Three years of intensive activity, which characterized the development and management of the rural psychological service, are overviewed. Five adjacent rural school district superintendents proposed a project to determine the feasibility of providing psychological and social work services in a sparsely populated area. Planning Phase 1 sought to…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Guidance Programs, Psychoeducational Methods, Psychological Services
Muse, Ivan D. – 1977
Characterized by limited financial resources, course offerings, vocational education programs, faculty, and administrators, rural schools have a student population that is generally poorer, less motivated, more culturally deprived, and more isolated than its urban counterpart. Consequently, the rural school teacher has an especially demanding job,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Competency Based Teacher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedChalmers, John W. – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1985
The first official trustee of the Northland School Division details the history of the corporation from its founding in 1960. The anecdotal narrative describes achievements and failures, operating procedures, and difficulties of providing education in isolated areas. An editors' response following the paper points out the author's unique…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Cultural Isolation
Direct linkAmos, Jason, Ed. – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2004
"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "Profiles in Leadership": Alliance Releases a Collection of Essays from America's Foremost Education…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Graduation Rate, Federal Legislation, Educational Finance
Waters, Michael S., Ed. – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), Ohio University, 2005
Most of the scholarship and commentary on mathematics education deals with issues of curriculum and instruction; this is understandable in a field logically belonging to the domain of curriculum and instruction. Moreover, issues of teaching and learning are compelling to people who love to learn and teach mathematics. Policy receives shorter…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Policy, Rural Education, Multicultural Education
Dyson, Michael; Cairns, Len; Hesse, Alice; Reeves, Mark – 2002
This report describes the Remote School, a "center for student leadership" in the high country of the Victorian Alps (Australia), and presents findings from an ongoing evaluation. This state-supported residential program addresses the needs of year-9 students on the threshold of adulthood and seeks to harness their energy in positive…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation
Rosenbusch, Marcia H., Ed. – Learning Languages, 2002
These three journal issues contain the following articles: "Japanese at Mimosa Elementary School" (Azusa Uchihara); "A Successful Keypal Project Using Varied Technologies" (Jean L. Pacheco); "Promoting a Language-Proficient Society: What You Can Do" (Kathleen M. Marcos and Joy Kreeft Peyton); "Journal Reflections…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Beginning Teachers, Computer Uses in Education, Creative Teaching
Ferguson, Dianne L. – 1997
This paper summarizes what one research team learned when examining three issues related to inclusive education and general education reform in collaboration with schools in three rural districts in Oregon. The issues were: (1) how does special education becomes an integral part of public schooling; (2) how will higher education, research…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Diversity (Student), Educational Change, Educational Objectives
