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Western Washington Univ., Bellingham. National Rural Development Inst. – 1987
This book was developed as a comprehensive guide to rural education resources, exemplary programs, and products. The guide is organized according to federal regions (1 through 10) and offers almost 200 citations. The cited agencies and programs, including departments of education, schools, resource centers, and outreach programs, are organized by…
Descriptors: Community Services, Demonstration Programs, Education Service Centers, Educational Resources
Saide, Tom – 1984
The experimental Contact Teacher Centre at Winton State Primary School was established in March 1983 to expand the avenues of service delivery for 20 isolated Queensland primary school children from 14 families living within an 80 kilometer radius of Winton. The aims of the Centre were to: (1) assist correspondence pupils with their work; (2)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Correspondence Study, Delivery Systems, Distance Education
Southwest and West Central Educational Cooperative Service Unit, Marshall, Minn. – 1980
The benefits of regional cooperation among small rural school districts are stressed in this brief description of the Educational Cooperative Service Unit (ECSU) currently serving 63,800 students in 104 member districts. A section on historical background traces the ECSU's forerunners, e.g., an educational media center established in 1965, the…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Service Centers, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs
Hanson, Jean Thompson – 1980
The 61 cooperative vocational centers in Minnesota are joint efforts of 2 or more neighboring school districts to provide secondary vocational education and to strengthen, extend and expand existing vocational programs. Begun as pilot projects in 1968, the centers focus on introducing students to a variety of occupations, providing career…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Exploration, Centralization, Cooperative Programs
Dirst, Stephanie – 1996
This paper describes efforts to address the shortage of special educators in rural Georgia by supplying regular education teachers with information and resources to teach disabled students. Since 1969, the Georgia Center for Students with Disabilities (GCSD) has provided yearly comprehensive medical and psychoeducational evaluations to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Education Service Centers, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Resources
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1984
Twenty-one profiles of rural partnerships are included in this conference handout. Following a proclamation by President Ronald Reagan declaring 1983-1984 the National Year of Partnerships in Education, a list of the partnership programs with meeting places, time assignments, and presiders is provided for presentations on the partnerships in…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, American Indian Education, Board of Education Role, College School Cooperation
Bailey, Gerald D., Comp.; Scott, Robert E., Comp. – 1981
Conference papers are clustered into three major categories: background--the past and future; current issues in rural and small school education; and individual and group roles in rural and small school education. Papers in the first category provide an overview of the basic changes in rural education, project a picture of rural education in the…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role, Career Development, College Role