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Download full textHearn, Norman E. – 1981
Effects of Federal education policy on rural and small school include inequities and neglect. Funding formulas based on concentrations of targeted pupils and average cost per pupil appear to deprive small and rural local education agencies (LEA) of a fair share of Federal education monies. Selection criteria such as density and Education Division…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Change Strategies, Definitions, Delivery Systems
Messerschmidt, Donald A. – 1979
When the Experimental Schools (ES) program began in 1972, schools in conservative and traditional River District, Wyoming, had just undergone a controversial consolidation. The ES program was perceived by new administrators as a source of necessary unity, useful outside help, and financial incentives. School trustees were "favorable but…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Career Education, Community Attitudes
Murphy, Dave; Miller, George E. – 1978
The Guastello-Zollar funding formula provides a foundation of state financial support to community colleges based on a "fair share partnership" concept of funding and a program of investment/incentive grants awarded to encourage colleges to implement programs which have high priority in Michigan's educational policy goals. The fair share…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Career Guidance, Community Colleges, Correctional Education
Kaplan, Carol B.; Downey, Lee – 1978
This description of career education activities in Coloma, Michigan, was prepared as part of a study conducted to identify evaluated, exemplary career education activities which represent the best of the current career education programs and practices referred to in Public Law 93-380. (See CE 018 212 for the final report of this study.) This…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
McCune, Allen D. – 1980
During the 1979-80 academic year the Vocational Guidance Program at Halstead High School, a rural school with an enrollment of 225 students, placed over half the juniors and seniors in work-study positions, helped 24 seniors secure $38,000 in scholarship awards, and provided some type of career materials and information to students in all grades…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, College Bound Students, Counseling Services
Jess, James D., Ed. – 1979
The problems, challenges, and opportunities of rural education are the focus of the fourteen speeches and nine workshops presented at the second annual conference on rural education, held February 1-2, 1979, in Des Moines, Iowa. Conference proceedings are presented in this newsletter in transcript or summary form. Speeches cover the topics of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Conference Reports, Consolidated Schools, Educational Administration
Licata, Joseph W.; Wildes, James R. – 1979
Upon identification of the environmental robustness (social interaction) perceived by students and teachers in 6 classrooms in a predominantly black 185 pupil rural secondary school in Georgia, this field study describes and contrasts the structural features of classrooms as a means of producing an improved operational understanding of classroom…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Educational Environment
Juettner, Bob; Kleinfeld, Judith – 1978
The evaluation of the Iditarod Area School District small high schools program provided useful information for future program development. The 1978 program for 87 students in 9 scattered schools included: student travel within Alaska and in the lower 48 states; student travel within the district for mini-courses and a student congress; and the…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Alaska Natives, Board of Education Role, Career Education
RHODES, CHARLES W. – 1968
EDUCATORS AT THE APPALACHIA EDUCATIONAL LABORATORY IN CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, HAVE MODIFIED THE EDUCATIONAL PARK CONCEPT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION WHILE MAINTAINING A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHER AND PUPIL. AS PROPOSED, THE EDUCATIONAL COOPERATIVE WOULD CONSIST OF A CENTRAL FACILITY, JOINTLY CONSTRUCTED BY SMALLER…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Programs, Disadvantaged, Early Childhood Education
WILLIAMS, J. EARL – 1966
SUBSTANTIAL POVERTY IN RURAL AREAS HAS BEEN CAUSED BY UNEMPLOYMENT DUE TO THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION WHICH HAS MECHANIZED AGRICULTURAL OCCUPATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN THE EXCLUSIVE DOMAIN OF THE FARM LABORER. A WELL-ORGANIZED COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM PROVIDES A MEANS OF EFFECTIVELY COMBATING THE RATE OF UNEMPLOYMENT WHICH IS ESPECIALLY HIGH AMONG…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Laborers, Community Action, Cooperative Programs
BEATTIE, ALFRED W. – 1960
A MAJOR TASK OF THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT AND HIS STAFF IS THAT OF PLANNING NECESSARY FACILITIES AND PROVIDING SPECIALIZED PERSONNEL. HIS MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY IS THAT OF MAINTAINING UNIFORMITY IN COURSE CONTENT AND LEVEL OF ACHIEVEMENT IN SCHOOLS IN VARIOUS COUNTIES AND ACROSS STATE LINES. USE OF TELEVISED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS HAS BECOME ALL BUT…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrators, Ancillary Services, Educational Facilities
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1970
Promising methods utilized in small rural high schools to provide a wider range of experiences for students are identified and described. Programs reported on include the Arctic Nursing Program, Career Research Program, Contractual Study Program, Eye-opening Experience, Field Experience Program, Guitar and Folk Music Program, Individualized…
Descriptors: Business Education, Career Planning, Classes (Groups of Students), Community Resources
Sieber, Sam D.; And Others – 1972
The Pilot State Dissemination Program of the National Center for Educational Communication, carried out in three target states by field agents, is evaluated as to goals, procedures, and outcomes. The seven parts of Volume I, and their chapters, are as follows: Part I, Goals: Alternative Goals of Extension-Retrieval Projects; Part II, Field Agent…
Descriptors: Action Research, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Consultants
Williams, John D.; And Others – 1972
Two methods of reading instruction (homogeneous grouping and graded classes) are compared for 165 students in 8 rural North Dakota schools by raw gain scores, residual gain scores, and the analysis of covariance. (CK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Classes (Groups of Students), Comparative Analysis, Correlation
National Rural Education Association (NJ1), 2004
Idealistic federal legislation that invokes excellence and fairness, such as the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, may actually leave many rural communities behind as rural schools seeking to meet the federal mandates collide with state budget deficits of historical proportion. Drawing on the literature, public opinion polls, and the…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Federal Legislation, Rural Education, Public Education
