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Download full textBowen, Eric; Christiadi; Deskins, John; Lego, Brian – Appalachian Regional Commission, 2021
"An Overview of Coal and the Economy in Appalachia," a report commissioned by the Appalachian Regional Commission, details major trends in coal employment and production in the Appalachian Region over the past two decades. The report examines where employment and production losses have been concentrated within the Region, and also what…
Descriptors: Fuels, Mining, Geographic Regions, Employment
Jilleah G. Welch; Matthew N. Murray – Appalachian Regional Commission, 2020
This is the first of two reports exploring the relationship between coal activity and funding for elementary and secondary education in the Appalachian Region. In this first report, patterns in funding for elementary and secondary education are explored using annual data from 1995 to 2016. Counties that had some level of coal employment over this…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support, Fuels, Mining
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Direct linkSempier, Stephen H.; Swann, D. LaDon; Graham, Larissa; Hale, Christine; Maung-Douglass, Emily S.; Wilson, Monica; Bethel, Matthew; Plotkin, Pamela T.; Main, Martin B. – Journal of Extension, 2018
In response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) was formed to answer oil spill-related scientific questions. However, peer-reviewed scientific discoveries were not reaching people whose livelihoods depended on a healthy Gulf of Mexico. GoMRI and the four Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant programs partnered to…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Private Financial Support, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Water Pollution
Clary, Renee M.; Sumrall, Jeanne L.; Rodgers, John C., III; Wandersee, James H. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2013
The 2010 "Deepwater Horizon" oil spill greatly affected the Gulf Coast, and the news media reported information to wide audiences. Students enrolled in an online Environmental Geoscience course in fall 2010 voluntarily participated in a Gulf oil spill survey. More than 92% of the students (N = 77; 83 total enrollment), who were primarily…
Descriptors: Water Pollution, Fuels, Environmental Education, Earth Science
Sibley, Michael O., Ed. – Alabama Department of Education, 2010
"Alabama Education News" is published monthly except for June, July, and December by the Alabama Department of Education. This publication, authorized by Section 16-2-4 of the "Code of Alabama," as recompiled in 1975, is a public service of the Alabama Department of Education designed to inform citizens and educators about…
Descriptors: Mentors, Educational Objectives, Educational Improvement, Reading Teachers
Alabama State Commission on Higher Education, Montgomery. – 1987
The Alabama Commission on Higher Education spent 3 years compiling and analyzing information on the consumption and costs of energy and other kinds of utilities by Alabama public colleges and universities. Usage and cost information is taken from each institution's quarterly utilities report. It is noted that interinstitutional comparisons can be…
Descriptors: Air Conditioning, Building Operation, Electrical Systems, Energy Conservation
Deffenbaugh, W. S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
This brief study is based upon several weeks' observation of schools and mining towns in what are considered the best districts in the bituminous coal region of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Alabama, and upon some years' acquaintance with mining town schools. An attempt has been made to point out in a general way the type of school that should…
Descriptors: Fuels, Leisure Time, Observation, Mining
White, Rebecca Leigh, Ed. – Alabama Department of Education, 2005
"Alabama Education News" is published monthly except for June, July, and December by the Alabama Department of Education. This publication, authorized by Section 16-2-4 of the "Code of Alabama", as recompiled in 1975, is a public service of the Alabama Department of Education designed to inform citizens and educators about…
Descriptors: School Buses, Fine Arts, Advanced Placement Programs, Academic Achievement
