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Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1974
Sixty-three projects, forty-five of which were approved and funded during fiscal year 1974 by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III, and providing the funds to public school districts to demonstrate the feasibility of education innovations, are highlighted in this document about Wisconsin ESEA Title III exemplary ESEA programs. New…
Descriptors: American Indians, Career Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Gasperini, Lavinia – 2000
Reducing the number of undernourished people in all countries to half its present level no later than 2015 is the commitment undertaken by the international community during the World Food Summit of 1996. In order to accomplish this goal, a common vision to work for sustainable growth that favors the poor and provides more resources for health,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Agricultural Education
Curran, Vernon R.; Bornstein, Stephen; Jong, Michael; Fleet, Lisa – Online Submission, 2004
(Purpose) This report summarizes a synthesis of the literature related to the evidence, initiatives and approaches to rural/northern medical education, particularly its role in strengthening the medical workforce in rural areas. (Methodology) A literature review was conducted involving the literature databases MEDLINE (January 1990-March 2003),…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Schools, Negative Attitudes, Physicians
Thorndike, Edward L. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1909
This bulletin reports facts concerning the salaries, the amount of education, and the amount of experience in teaching of men and of women in public and in private secondary schools in the United States. It shows the typical condition and the variations from it of each fact for each group, and makes certain obvious comparisons between the groups.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Salaries
Monahan, A. C. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
In the Federal Census of 1910, 58.5 per cent of the population of the United States from 6 to 20 years of age, both inclusive, are classed as rural, which means that nearly three-fifths of the total American school population live in the open country, or in villages and small towns, under rural conditions. The total rural population of this class…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Enrollment Trends, White Students
Foght, Harold W. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
The wealth, property and contentment of the rural population of Denmark are known to all the world. Students in Denmark and elsewhere familiar with the recent history of the country assert that these are due directly, and almost wholly, to the character and universality of Danish rural education. Probably no other country has succeeded so well in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Rural Education, Numbers, Foreign Countries
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Bathurst, Effie G. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1947
This bulletin is written to help answer questions on the rural school's part in good living, to be of use to teachers, parents, and supervisors in discussion groups or in individual planning. It points out that rural communities, from poor to average to well-to-do, are making new demands on education. It shows scenes from schools that are meeting…
Descriptors: Educational History, Rural Schools, Rural Areas, School Role
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Nelson, Raymond H. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1949
The U.S. Office of Education has undertaken the preparation of a series of basic studies on education in a number of Central and South American countries under the sponsorship of the Interdepartmental Committee on Cultural and Scientific Cooperation. This series of studies is part of a program to promote understanding of educational conditions in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Elementary Education, Fine Arts, Teacher Qualifications
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Zuniga, Keren; Olson, Joanne K.; Winter, Mary – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
This study investigated the effects of one rural high school's science course placement practices on Latino/a student success in science, as measured by performance in a required science course and enrollment in subsequent science courses. The high school involved in this study has experienced a rapid increase in language minority students and…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Academic Ability, White Students, Standardized Tests
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Tsiakkiros, Andreas; Pashiardis, Petros – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2002
The main goal of the present study was to investigate the perceptions of Cypriot teachers on the management of small primary schools. From the wide range of issues identified in the literature, seven areas were chosen for examination: management and leadership; teachers in small schools; advice and support; pupils in small schools; curriculum and…
Descriptors: Small Schools, Foreign Countries, Students, Elementary School Students
Blanton, Roy E.; Harmon, Hobart L. – Rural Educator, 2005
Schools in 47 high-poverty school districts located mostly along the Atlantic Coast of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia may have a head start on new requirements of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001, thanks to a $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Begun in April 2000, the five-year Coastal Rural Systemic…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Poverty, Federal Legislation, Disadvantaged Youth
Montgomery, Diane, Ed. – 1997
This proceedings includes 62 papers on rural special education. Papers present promising practices for rural special education, current research, program descriptions, discussions of theory, and topics of timely concern. The papers are organized in order of presentation, and are categorized in a topical index under the following subjects:…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Distance Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Technology
Fink, Deborah; Schwieder, Dorothy – 1984
Both economically and socially, Iowa farm women played important roles in supporting and maintaining the rural population during the 1930s. They continued their patterns of production for consumption and for income, and during the Depression this production constituted a larger and more significant part of the household economy. Women kept large…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Clubs, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement
Baldwyn Separate School District, MS. – 1983
Objectives of a model program (1980-83) for gifted students in a small rural high school in Baldwyn, Mississippi, were to improve teacher knowledge of gifted programs, demonstrate significant gains in student achievement, increase student skill/knowledge in specific areas, measure attitudes of "artistically talented" students by a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Art Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy
Ellis, Pam – 1986
In 1980, Tonnelly Central School District became the first school district in New York State to be dissolved pursuant to Section 1505 of Education Law, marking the first use of dissolution and annexation as a means by which to address the programmatic and management problems encountered in the operation of a central school district. Problems faced…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Case Studies
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