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Linda Doeden; Esther Smidt – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2024
This research project explored the factors affecting the adoption of an innovative and active English language teaching (ELT) strategy by Lao teachers. It also investigated why many teachers found it difficult to adopt the strategy and how an understanding of this difficulty resulted in the creation of an in-service teacher training program.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Rural Schools
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Cecilia M. Orphan; Mac Wetherbee; Becket C. Duncan – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Regional Public Universities (RPUs) advance public good missions to foster postsecondary access, student-centeredness, and regional wellbeing. Despite the important contributions that RPUs make to their regions and students, scholars and the media often view the sector as amorphous and undistinguished, or they define RPUs by what they are not…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Classification, Institutional Characteristics, Geographic Regions
Grig Sawyer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
High school principals can change the status quo of the current iniquitous disparities in the education system between South Carolina's rural high schools and their more populated and affluent suburban schools. Using a non-standard structure and the resources in their control, these school leaders can find solutions so schools can offer rural…
Descriptors: High Schools, Rural Schools, Principals, Small Schools
Glenda Jean Boon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Educator retention is a concern plaguing the nation. Schools struggle yearly to fill positions for classroom educators as teachers leave the profession. This phenomenological study examined a rural Central Texas school district and its educators' perceptions of retention issues. Multiple classroom educators were interviewed at a Title 1 rural…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Teacher Attitudes
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Krista M. Soria – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2024
The purpose of this study was to examine whether rural college students had significantly different probabilities of experiencing academic, financial, and health-related difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to students attending urban/suburban colleges or universities. The data were drawn from a multi-institutional survey of 31,575…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Student Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Elise Swanson; Jennifer Ash; Sativa Thompson; Lisa Sanbonmatsu; Christopher Avery; Douglas O. Staiger; Thomas J. Kane – Grantee Submission, 2024
We evaluate two interventions designed to improve students' postsecondary readiness, as measured by their GPA, self-reported career readiness, and self-reported social emotional constructs, in rural districts. Student Success Planning (SSP) was implemented by 17 rural districts in New York and Ohio and included quarterly meetings between students…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, School Readiness, Grade Point Average, Career Readiness
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Elise Swanson; Sativa Thompson – Grantee Submission, 2024
This brief provides an overview of the postsecondary readiness-focused interventions that districts partnering with the National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCRERN) implemented and evaluated through a randomized controlled trial during the 2021-22 school year. NCRERN districts piloted two interventions aimed at improving…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, School Readiness, Rural Schools, Grade Point Average
Todd Zoblotsky; Robert McKinney; Carolyn Kaldon; Mojtaba Khajeloo; Yu Wu; Ivysmeralys Morales – Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP), 2024
The goal of Smithsonian Science for North and South Carolina Classrooms was to provide teachers with ongoing, differentiated professional development and research-based curricular materials to improve elementary student achievement in science, mathematics, and reading. This work used an inquiry-based science curriculum, Smithsonian Science for the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Achievement, Grade 3, Grade 4
Kate Kinder; Lindsey Reichlin Cruse; Marc Goldberg – National Skills Coalition, 2024
Rural community colleges serve as engines of economic opportunity and equity, offering students place-based programs and pathways that lead to good jobs. They also develop dynamic and responsive industry partnerships, to ensure their workforce education and training curriculum, programs, and transfer pathways meet the needs of local employers and…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Community Colleges, Industry, Partnerships in Education
Smithsonian Science Education Center, 2024
The five-year project, "Smithsonian Science for North and South Carolina Classrooms" (hereafter "Smithsonian Science"), offers important evidence on the impact of the phenomena-driven science curriculum, "Smithsonian Science for the Classroom," paired with ongoing, differentiated, high-quality professional learning…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Achievement, Grade 3, Grade 4
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Thijs Jan van Schie; Paul Vedder – Ethnography and Education, 2025
This article explores the identity and image of a Waldorf school in a poor rural community in Central Philippines. The school strives for great ideals. The article examines whether these ideals are supported and implemented by its teachers and students (identity), and how they are perceived by outsiders, e.g. teachers and students at a nearby…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Rural Schools, Cultural Capital
Ellis, Kaci; Gage, Nicholas A.; Kramer, Dennis; Baton, Emily; Angelosante, Courtney – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2022
Positive school climate is associated with myriad positive student, staff, and school outcomes, including increased achievement and decreased problem behavior. Hence, universal evidence-based practices are necessary to increase school climate. One universal approach with evidence of effects on school climate is School-Wide Positive Behavior…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Positive Behavior Supports
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Murphy, Steve – Research in Science Education, 2022
Science education is essential for sustainability and prosperity. However, students from rural communities, arguably the future custodians of our environment and significant drivers of our economies, underperform in science education. In Australia, rural students generally lag behind metropolitan students in science achievement and engagement.…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High School Students, Secondary School Science, Enrollment
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Woodcock, Stuart; Hardy, Ian – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2022
In this article, we reveal the complex and contested nature of principals' understandings of inclusion policy in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Drawing upon critical policy sociology, research into inclusion, and interviews with 18 principals from rural, regional and urban areas throughout the state, the research shows how principals…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Inclusion, School Policy
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McKay, Heather A.; Edwards, Renée; Douglas, Daniel – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2022
This article examines how states and community colleges can streamline the transfer process through an innovative national program known as Interstate Passport. The program enables block transfer of lower-division general education attainment based on a set of learning outcomes rather than on individual courses and credits. The article shows how…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Interstate Programs, College Transfer Students
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