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Moving Mountains: Reform, Resistance, and Resiliency in an Appalachian Kentucky High School. National Rural Education Association 1996 Dissertation of the Year Award.

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Porter, Maureen K. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1996

A year-long ethnographic investigation examined how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they had targeted for reform while resisting state priorities and policies mandated in the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Contrasts KERA objectives with cultural themes prominent in this poor…

Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change