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Heyward, Georgia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2018
The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has been studying the four-day school week since 2015. Since then, the phenomenon of the four-day school week has spread into non-rural areas and interest appears to be growing. Given these apparent changes, the author wanted to know more about recent trends in the initiative. As districts continue…
Descriptors: School Schedules, School Districts, Rural Areas, Rural Schools
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Yettick, Holly; Baker, Robin; Wickersham, Mary; Hupfeld, Kelly – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to inform the upcoming and overdue reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) by exploring whether rural school districts face disadvantages as they attempt to follow the law's provisions and, if so, if the law's rural-specific section ameliorates these disadvantages. The research drew upon…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Ross, Mary Beth – TECHNOS, 1997
A drawback to living in rural areas is that technology can be slow to arrive. Describes a program developed by PRIMESTAR, a digital satellite television service headquartered in Philadelphia, to provide satellite dishes and receivers, at no cost, to schools across the country without access to cable TV. Highlights the experience of Coalcreek…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cable Television, Case Studies, Donors