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Kucera, Mary Ann – 1979
Data prepared for a study of declining enrollment in 12 school districts in the Grant Wood Area are presented in tabular form under the headings of enrollment, curriculum, personnel, and transportation. Enrollment tables show current enrollment by grade, total enrollments for each school year beginning with 1972-73 and projected through 1983-84,…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Courses, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education

Al-Ahram Center for Scientific Translations, Cairo (Egypt). – 1977
The selective annotated bibliography of Egyptian educational publications contains 109 entries on 42 topics. Included are journal articles, books, and government documents published during 1976. Content includes the following topics: adult education, art education, audiovisual aids, care for distinguished students, educational planning,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Art Education, Audiovisual Aids
Wachtel, Betsy; Powers, Brian – 1979
This volume attempts to document ways in which several communities have dealt with the problems of declining school enrollments. Each case study outlines some type of public participation in the task of adjusting to population changes and fiscal pressures. The first chapter supplies an introductory overview of issues related to declining…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Bus Transportation, Case Studies, Citizen Participation
Gianini, Paul C., Jr. – 1979
Community colleges should return to the philosophy of localism and team up with community agencies to play an active role in community planning and development. Rural colleges, which are governed by local boards that are more prone to receive immediate community pressure than their urban counterparts, are more suited to the achievement of this…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, College Role, Community Benefits, Community Colleges
Hull, Ray; Hegtvedt, Kathryn – 1979
Fifteen University of Oregon undergraduate education majors participated in a successful 3-day program of total immersion in rural community living and teaching in Condon, Oregon. The field experience model had unique elements: (1) the course was offered as an alternative to a required course in teaching strategies and student teachers were…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Graduate Students

Hobbs, Daryl – 1979
Rural schools have had a traditional role as major vehicles of rural economic development. During the rapid economic changes of the 20th century rural schools supplied the literate migrants who flocked to the cities to become the human capital for urban based expansion. Rural schools also provided the literate farmers who stayed at home and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum, Educational Economics, Educational Environment

Cusack, Mary Ann – 1974
An eight-year project--Project SACI--begun in 1969 is introducing technology into Brazil's educational system. It is based upon the hypotheses that technology can deliver education to more students, increase achievement, and provide cost-effective teacher education. To rest these hypotheses, Project SACI aims to bring satellite transmission of…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Developing Nations, Educational Radio, Educational Technology
Peters, Richard Oakes; Fisher, L. Timothy – 1976
Career education is an ongoing process which begins at an early age in the life of the child with the development of an awareness of careers and occupations, and proceeds systematically through the stages of exploration, counseling and guidance, training, and job placement. The New Hampshire Supervisory School Union 58 Experimental Schools (ES)…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Awareness, Career Counseling, Career Education
Johns, Susan; Kilpatrick, Sue; Loechel, Barton; Prescott, Libby – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2004
This report investigates the medium-term outcomes of vocational education and training (VET) programs delivered by rural schools for youth and their communities. Former students from six rural school clusters in six states were surveyed, including those who participated in school VET programs and those who did not. Principals and school VET…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Vocational Education
Payne-Bourcy, Laura – 2001
This doctoral study examined the literacy practices of two rural adolescents as they crossed between the social contexts of their rural community, Winnona Hill, and higher education. Data collected primarily through semi-structured e-mail interviews over a 4-year period indicated that both informants used multiple literacies and a range of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Dissonance, College Environment, College Students, Coping
Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, GA. – 2000
The Southern Regional Education Board's (SREB) Making Schools Work (MSW) initiative works with clusters of high schools and their feeder middle grades to raise student achievement in rural areas. MSW is based on the belief that all students can complete an "advantaged" curriculum, although some students may require more time,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Change Strategies, College Preparation
Price-Johnson, Connie; Powers, Stephen – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine exemplary communication efforts of 12 selected outstanding schools in the United States. The methodology employed was case study methodology supplemented by interviews with key educational administrators. The results show unusual and outstanding ways that schools communicate with parents and the public, as…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Administrators, Case Studies, School Safety
Enger, Sandra K. – 1997
The link between instruction in middle school science and assessment in ninth grade science in a small rural midwestern school district was investigated. Science students, in middle school grades 6-8 (917) and their 13 science teachers responded to surveys used to characterize science learning opportunities in the middle school classes. Ninth…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Assessment, Grade 9, Graphs
Davis, Mary T.; Emery, Maggie J.; Lane, Cheryl – 1998
The Center of Excellence for Rural Special Education at Clemson University (South Carolina) has developed a field-based undergraduate preservice teacher training program. During the fall and spring semesters of their senior year, preservice teachers are matched with a mentor special education teacher for 2 weeks in a rural school district of the…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, College Seniors, Community Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
American Council on Rural Special Education. – 2001
The 2001 conference proceedings of the American Council on Rural Special Education (ACRES) contains 62 papers and summaries of presentations concerned with issues in rural special education. The papers are presented in 12 categories: impacting governmental policy, at risk, collaborative education models, early childhood, gifted, multicultural,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Cooperation, Educational Practices, Educational Strategies