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Download full textRural Matters: The Rural Challenge News, 2000
This document contains the 10 quarterly issues of "Rural Matters: The Rural Challenge News," published from Fall 1997 to Winter 2000 (the final issue). This newsletter focused on projects funded by the Annenberg Rural Challenge, as well as research summaries and opinion pieces on the benefits of small schools, place-based education, and…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education, Grants, Place Based Education
Franklin, Elizabeth, Ed. – Insights into Open Education, 1991
In interview excerpts, three teachers at Dowa Yalanne Elementary School on the Zuni Indian Reservation discuss ways they use community resources to help their students learn. The teachers explain the importance of introducing concepts by grounding them in familiar activities from home and community. They suggest that, for them, the…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Class Activities, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Curriculum
Rural Roots: News, Information, and Commentary from the Rural School and Community Trust, 2000-2001.
Westra, Kathryn E., Ed.; Yaunches, H. Alison, Ed. – Rural Roots, 2001
This document contains the first eight issues of "Rural Roots"--two published in 2000 and six published bimonthly in 2001. A newsletter of the Rural School and Community Trust, "Rural Roots" provides news, information, and commentary from the Rural Trust and highlights the wide variety of place-based education work happening in…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, American Indian Education, Conferences, Educational Change
Yaunches, Alison, Ed.; Loveland, Elaina, Ed. – Rural Roots, 2002
This document contains the six issues of "Rural Roots" published bimonthly in 2002. A newsletter of the Rural School and Community Trust, "Rural Roots" provides news, information, and commentary from the Rural Trust and highlights the wide variety of place-based education work happening in rural schools and communities across…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Mexican American Education, Place Based Education
Benson, Chris, Ed. – Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network Magazine, 1999
This serial issue contains nine articles all on the subject of "changing practice," i.e., innovative practices of rural English teachers in the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network. "Byte-ing into Medieval Literature" (John Fyler) describes an online conference on medieval literature for rural high school students. "Literacy…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Collegiality, Educational Practices, English Teachers
Marklund, Inger, Ed.; Otter, Annica, Ed. – School Research Newsletter, 1985
Described is the Man in a Changing Society (MIS) project in which K-12 Swedish children use parish records to study and research local history. Church records in Sweden contain detailed information about individuals living during the 18th and 19th centuries. To make this information accessible to researchers, the Swedish church records are being…
Descriptors: Churches, Cognitive Development, Computer Assisted Instruction, Concept Formation
Sharing Our Pathways: A Newsletter of the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative, 1999
In 1995 the National Science Foundation funded the Alaska Rural System Initiative (RSI), a joint effort of the Alaska Federation of Natives and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Among its goals, the RSI aims to increase the presence of Alaska Native knowledge and perspectives in all areas of science and education in rural Alaska, develop…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indians
Rural Challenge News, 1998
Strong local communities are the best habitat for excellence in education, and education is the responsibility of the whole community. Setting high academic standards and achieving against those standards is an important educational objective, but the quest for higher standards can be exploited to serve other purposes. This statement sets out the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Community Control, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Poliakoff, Anne Rogers, Ed. – Basic Education, 2002
This theme issue of Basic Education contains five articles on rural schools. "Small Schools: A Political Irony" (Marty Strange) notes the current enthusiasm among education reformers for small schools and the evidence of their effectiveness. Given this context, the question is posed as to why rural communities where small schools are…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College School Cooperation, Consortia, Elementary Secondary Education
