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Direct linkHowley, Craig B. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2003
Research on rural mathematics education should adopt a conservative approach to method that accepts the existence of a knowable reality; a liberal approach to content that views rural issues broadly and sidesteps deficit models of rurality; and a radical perspective on application that recognizes that the use of research findings in the policy…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research, Mathematics Education
Howley, Craig B. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1997
Argues that the primary purpose of mass education in America--nation-building--is collapsing and that educational researchers must develop different commitments; among these are local purposes for education. Distinguishes rural (local) and cosmopolitan commitments; suggests readings and other means of preparation for rural educational research;…
Descriptors: Anti Intellectualism, Criticism, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textHowley, Craig B.; Smith, Charles R. – 2000
Researchers and other persons interested in promoting research about rural school busing met in Columbus, Ohio, in December 1998. Drawing on that meeting and the rural school literature, this report describes why school transportation is an important issue nationwide, explains the lack of research on rural school busing, proposes a research…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Consolidated Schools, Educational Policy, Educational Research
Howley, Craig B. – Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM), 2003
This talk addresses the connections between rural life and education research centered on rural places. It's informed by the author's experience of all three realms--life, education, and schooling. The author discusses how rural education consists of meanings related to the rural lifeworld as those issues confront the conventional agenda for…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Population, Rural Areas, Rural Education
Howley, Craig B. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2000
A research agenda was developed to examine effects of rural school busing on rural children, families, and communities. The agenda addresses the history, politics, and financing of rural school busing; social, cultural, health, and safety considerations; geographic justice and school distribution; relationship to consolidation; influences on…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Consolidated Schools, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Howley, Craig B. – 2002
A review of research yields nine conclusions concerning mathematics achievement among rural and urban students. Among them are that currently a national rural vs. non-rural mathematics achievement gap does not exist; at the state level, a rural vs. non-rural achievement gap exists in 40 percent of the states, and that gap is evenly split between…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Educational Attainment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
