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Policy, Practice and the "Revolving Classroom Door": Examining the Relationship between Aboriginal Spatiality and the Mainstream Education System
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Prout, Sarah – Australian Journal of Education, 2009
Indigenous academic outcomes are in many ways negotiated at the interface between student spatialities--including their residential patterns and choices--and the mainstream school system. The current model of education delivery rewards regular attendance at well resourced schools. Conversely, sporadic interactions with under-resourced schools…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Residential Patterns, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Student Displacement in Louisiana after the Hurricanes of 2005: Experiences of Public Schools and Their Students. Technical Report
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Pane, John F.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; Tharp-Taylor, Shannah; Asmus, Gary J.; Stokes, Billy R. – RAND Corporation, 2006
The purpose of this technical report is to provide timely documentation of many of the short-term effects of the movements of students that occurred as part of the displacement of storm victims. The report will help guide educators and policymakers in their ongoing responses to this disaster and preparations for future events. Focusing on the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Information Systems, Public Schools, Natural Disasters
Growth and Change in Nonmetropolitan Schools: Effects of the Population Migration Turnaround in Osceola County, Michigan During the 1970's.
Frankena, Frederick – 1984
Findings of a study to establish the determinants and effects of urban to rural population migration patterns in Osceola County, Michigan, where a 27.6% increase (4,090 people) occurred during the 1970's, illustrate typical effects of population migration turnaround on nonmetropolitan schools. The study revealed that school facilities were…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education