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Direct linkTuck, Bradford; Berman, Matthew; Hill, Alexandra – Economics of Education Review, 2009
Local school districts differ in their ability to pay for teacher quality, and in the amenities they offer as places to live and work. Market clearing with heterogeneous quality yields geographically varying teacher salary levels that confound scarcity with unobserved differences in quality. The paper discusses identification and estimation of a…
Descriptors: Free Enterprise System, Models, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Salaries
Download full textNational Telecommunications and Information Administration (DOC), Washington, DC. – 2000
This report, in response to a request by 10 U.S. Senators examines the status of broadband deployment in the United States. The rate of deployment of broadband services will be key to future economic growth, particularly in rural areas far from urban and world markets. This report finds that rural areas, especially remote areas outside of towns,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Communications Satellites, Economic Development, Geographic Isolation
Malecki, Edward J. – 2001
This paper examines the extent to which rural America is digital--has access to the Internet and to newer technologies such as wireless broadband--and discusses rural supply and demand for "going digital." Supply aspects include issues of both infrastructure and public policy. Demand aspects include entrepreneurs (business users) and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Geographic Isolation
Peer reviewedDavison, Claire; Stevens, Ken – Rural Educator, 1997
Mobile preschool units provide a viable solution to the problem of delivering preschool education to isolated rural New Zealanders. Advantages include delivery of bicultural education to Maori children, a low teacher-student ratio, provision of qualified teachers, and enthusiastic parent participation. Disadvantages include inadequate buildings,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney (Australia). – 1999
Bush Talks is an initiative of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission that aims to identify the major human rights issues confronting rural and remote residents, to inform rural Australians about human rights, and to develop projects to advance human rights in rural Australia. This paper summarizes major issues raised by…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Access to Education, Civil Rights, Culturally Relevant Education
Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1927
This manual is printed primarily to present to educational committees of the State legislatures, educators, legislators, and interested citizens, the essentials of a program of educational legislation, state-wide in scope, based upon the experiences of the various States during the past several decades. A large amount of proposed educational…
Descriptors: Guides, School Organization, School Administration, School Support
