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Mingren, Zhao; Shiquan, Fu – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
The quality of rural teachers is a key factor affecting the quality of rural education. A better understanding of rural teachers is the basis for strengthening their development. It is possible to obtain a more holistic understanding of rural teachers' work and life through their identity. Based on a wealth of case-based information, rural teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Professional Identity, Elementary School Teachers
Croft, Michelle; Moore, Raeal – ACT, Inc., 2019
Rural students are often overlooked when it comes to education policy reform. However, the majority of rural students in nearly half the states are from low-income families, generally earn lower scores on standardized high school assessments, lack access to rigorous coursework, and attend college at lower rates than do students from non-rural…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, Access to Education, Low Income Students
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Kalimullin, Aydar M.; Korshunova, Olga V.; Koinova-Zoellner, Julia – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The urgency of the issue stated in the article is stipulated by the contemporary requirements to rural schoolchildren education, i.e. rise in its availability, quality and degree of specialization. The Federal State Education Standards have set an urgent, but at the same time challenging task to reach not only subject but also meta-subject and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Rural Education, Teaching Methods
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Donehower, Kim; Corbett, Michael J. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper presents a partial mapping of the field of rural literacies that has emerged following the publication of Edmondson's "Prairie Town" (2003) and Donehower et al.'s "Rural Literacies" (2007). These two texts presented the idea that rural places and spaces can be used to think about literacy practices in the context of…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Literacy, Rural Sociology, Rural Education
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Corbett, Michael; Forsey, Martin – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
We argue here that critical educational scholarship is crucial to developing educational analysis attuned to the nuances of place, mobility, and change in rural locations. Critical sociological analysis, we argue, can also nuance and complicate simplistic portrayals of rural communities and their social, economic, and cultural character. Two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Rural Youth, Rural Education
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Reaburn, Robyn; Fraser, Sharon; Smith, Heidi; Roberts, Janine; Fielding-Wells, Jill; Corbett, Michael – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
This paper provides initial evidence of the effectiveness of an educational program in a Tasmanian regional community that has experienced ongoing industrial restructuring. In response to these changes, community and civic leaders adopted a multifaceted strategic plan to address employment needs and opportunities. Part of this plan involved…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Program Effectiveness, Career Development
Porter, Lauren McMillin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research utilizes a natural experiment design to explore geographical differences in Early Learning Development Standards (ELDS) completion amongst registrants, both before and after an online delivery option is made available. Registrants were geocoded by workplace, and the employment zip code serves as a clustering variable. Spatial…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Faculty Development, Teacher Participation
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Brann-Barrett, M. Tanya – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2015
In this article, I engage in a reflexive examination of my educational research in order to explore various meanings of rurality and the ways these meanings can include and exclude. Focusing on commonly held conceptions of rurality as critiqued by theorists (Halfacree 2003, 2006; Cloke 2006), I use examples from my own multi-media research, as…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Rural Education, Reflection, Educational Researchers
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Pini, Barbara; Mayes, Robyn – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2015
This paper brings a rural geographical lens to the study of education and rurality. Two key interrelated notions underpinning Australian educational scholarship on rurality are explored. That is, the concepts of the rural and of community. The adoption and mobilisation of these terms in a large proportion of rural educational research as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Rural Areas, Human Geography
Walters, Kirk; Smith, Toni; Leinwand, Steve; Ford, Jennifer; Scheopner Torres, Aubrey – Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands, 2015
This study was designed in response to a request from rural educators in the Northeast for support in identifying high-quality online resources to implement the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM). The process for identifying online resources included selecting resources that had an easily navigable CCSSM organizational structure…
Descriptors: Internet, State Standards, Academic Standards, Mathematics Instruction
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Zhu, Gang; Peng, Zhengmei; Hu, Xueyan; Qiu, Shaoping – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2019
This Forum discusses the affordances and constraints of applying critical race theory (CRT) to the Chinese educational context. In "CRT as a Heuristic for Understanding Educational Inequality: How CRT Is Conceptualised in the United States," Gang Zhu delineates the social and theoretical backgrounds related to CRT, and its fundamental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Race, Equal Education
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Franzak, Judith K.; Porter, Heather D.; Harned, Courtney – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2019
The study explores how literacy sponsorship (Brandt, 2001) is constructed in a United States rural region by focusing on the discourse of rural teachers and students. Data included interviews with teachers and students, classroom observations, an environmental print literacy scan, and analysis of community and classroom-based texts. A multi-cycle…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Rural Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
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Assan, Thomas E. B. – Africa Education Review, 2019
Classroom practitioners are expected to facilitate effective learning under the "Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement" (CAPS) in South Africa. During this facilitation process, educators are required to become more resourceful in terms of their learning and teaching strategies. This article is based on a case study -- within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Educational Policy
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Schmitt-Wilson, Sarah; Downey, Jayne A.; Beck, Ashley E. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2018
Understanding patterns of educational attainment among rural youth is a critical concern for our nation as we seek to make postsecondary access and attainment more equitable across our increasingly diverse student population. The current study examines data collected in the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 to identify contemporary patterns of…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Educational Attainment, Context Effect, Longitudinal Studies
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Huang, Bin; Dong, Yunxia; Miao, Jingjing; Xu, Caiqun – ECNU Review of Education, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to investigate the impact of various types of intergovernmental fiscal transfers on local public education expenditure at the county level in China and to estimate the leakage of categorical subsidies for rural compulsory education. Design/Approach/Methods: It is a quantitative study. The paper constructs a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Costs, Expenditures, Public Education
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