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Price, Reine; And Others – 1986
A small rural elementary school in Bigelow, Arkansas has developed the Levelized Educational Advancement Program (LEAP) to offset diminished financial resources, limited classroom space, and reduction in professional staff. The program provides individualized basic education for 116 students in grades 4, 5, and 6, and provides daily enrichment…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Community Involvement, Community Resources, Curriculum Enrichment
Peer reviewedMiller, Michael K.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1984
Estimates impact of community resource development (CRD) programs on a variety of quality of life indicators for 73 Arkansas counties that were nonmetropolitan in 1960. Results indicate that few quality of life indicators were affected in the direction intended by CRD programs. Examines substantive and methodological implications of the findings.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Resources, Dropout Prevention, Extension Education
Download full textCampbell, Rex R.; And Others – 1980
Five types of counties (College-Professional, Urban, Recreational-Retirement, Extractive, and Most Rural) were identified among 83 counties in the Ozark-Ouchita Uplands in order to determine educational and health impacts resulting from the "population turnaround" of the late 1960's and early 1970's. Variables were computed from…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Community Change, Community Health Services, Community Resources
