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Armstrong, Gail – 1983
A 1983 directory of resources for small and rural school districts lists resources for improving schools, national resources, foundations as funding sources, and state educational agency staff who can assist rural schools with information and technical assistance requests. The first section describes school improvement resources/projects by…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Community Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
Sabo, Don – 1986
This document describes a longitudinal study of the role of sports in the lives of minority youth during the 1980s. Data were analyzed from the High School and Beyond study and all findings were proven to be statistically significant after multiple regression analyses. The term "athletes" refers to those individuals who reported…
Descriptors: Athletes, Athletics, Black Students, Ethnic Groups
Honeyman, David S.; And Others – 1989
This monograph investigates issues related to the financial support of rural schools. The first section describes various state formulas and the methods used to distribute funds to rural schools. It considers questions about the adequacy of funding adjustments based on sparsity and the relationship of such adjustments to equal educational…
Descriptors: Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Consolidated Schools, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Lewis, Ted; Edington, Everett D. – 1983
The study investigates the relationship of small district teacher aspirations, career patterns, residential preferences, biographic characteristics, motivations, and perceptions of organizational and community factors to teacher turnover intentions in selected small districts in New Mexico in the spring 1983. The population studied included 262…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Career Planning, Community Satisfaction, Faculty Mobility
Bailey, Billie; And Others – 1986
The overall goal of the sections of Mercer County's Chapter 1 project described in this profile was to provide a low-risk environment for the development of writing, reading, and related language arts skills in first, second, and third grade children. This goal was implemented within the broader sphere of the total school community. Communication,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Individual Instruction
Flanagan, Kathleen R.; Trueblood, Cecil R. – 1986
Based on research studies of effective staff development and rural education, the Inservice Leadership Team (ILT) was designed to identify key teachers in school buildings, team them with principals and central office staff, and train the team to design, deliver, and evaluate staff development at the school level. Rural Pennsylvania school staff,…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Programs
Barker, Bruce – 1985
As part of a 45-state study, a self-administered questionnaire was mailed during the 1982-83 school year to 70 of Oklahoma's 237 public K-12 school districts enrolling fewer than 1,000 students; the questionnaire requested information about rural districts, teachers, students, and school programs. For the 45 responding districts, average student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Comparative Analysis, Definitions
Traugh, Cecelia – North Dakota Journal of Education, 1984
This issue features a special report on a 1982-1983 study of 19 rural North Dakota high schools. The report is preceded by a brief commentary. The study provides in-depth descriptions of 7 schools and survey data from 12 others, and has sections on teachers, students, purposes and expectations, school climate and relationship with the community,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives
Altschuld, James W.; And Others – 1978
This module of the staff training series deals with techniques for developing career guidance programs in three settings--the home, the community, and the school. Suggestions and experiences are outlined to help practitioners gain skill in designing career guidance practices appropriate to these environments. Home-centered career guidance…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Education, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Santiago (Chile). Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. – 1987
This document begins by describing the technological revolution and the impact of computers, and their role in education in Latin America and the Caribbean. Some educators believe that computer literacy can provide young people with access to better jobs in the society of the future and upgrade the level of education in general. An article by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Correspondence Study
Moody, Charles D., Sr.; Kearney, C. Philip – Breakthrough, 1984
The 1981 enactment of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act Chapter 2 (ECIA-Chapter 2), which consolidated 28 separate categorical federal aid programs into a single block grant, has had policy and fiscal impacts in Michigan. Policy debate centers on the inherent tension between equity, particularly equity defined as equal treatment of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Block Grants, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Schmidt, Gene L. – 1983
After an introductory section which points out that the responsibility of small and rural schools is to provide all children with a quality education, and that Boards of Education must decide what is best for all children in the community, the paper briefly describes 16 exemplary programs involving cooperation between school districts. The…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Community Influence, Cooperative Programs, Decision Making
Meek, V. Lynn – 1984
The relationship between the internal structure of the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education (GIAE) in rural Australia and the structure of the social and physical environment are considered, based on a sociological case study. A review of higher education covers the technical school system, the development of colleges of advanced education in…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Bachelors Degrees, Case Studies, College Administration
Honeyman, David S.; And Others – 1987
This study was undertaken to assess the condition of school facilities in rural and small school districts in the 50 states and analyze the mechanisms used by rural and small school districts to finance capital outlay. The study is part of an ongoing effort to address concerns specific to rural and small schools in the United States. The focus of…
Descriptors: Building Operation, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Educational Environment, Educational Facilities
Tingley, Wayne – 1986
Teachers and administrators in rural New Mexico schools and preservice teachers at New Mexico State University were surveyed to determine components that could be included in teacher education programs to augment prospective rural teachers' skills and to ease problems of recruitment/retention of certified personnel in rural schools. Questionnaires…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education