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Olson, Paul A. – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1997
Addressing the "death of hope" in rural Nebraska during the 1980s farm crisis, the "School at the Center" project engages rural schools and communities in active learning projects: housing or historic-building repair, environmental repair, microenterprise development, exploration of local cultural heritage, and technology…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Community Development, Community Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Searles, P. David – 1995
This book documents the story of Alice Lloyd, a Massachusetts woman who founded Caney Creek Community Center and Caney Junior College (now Alice Lloyd College) in eastern Kentucky during the early 20th century. For the past 70 years, the college has enabled thousands of students from Appalachia to obtain a college education at little or no cost.…
Descriptors: Appalachian Studies, Change Agents, College Role, Colleges
