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Bouchard, Rene L. – Perspectives: A Journal of Research and Opinion about Educational Service Agencies, 2003
Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) provide cost-effective shared services to New York's rural districts. Services in career and technical education and staff development offered by the Steuben-Allegany BOCES are described. Future plans include increased cooperation with colleges in providing adult education, evolution of the…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Intermediate Administrative Units, Program Descriptions, Rural Schools
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
Hall, Robert F.; Barker, Bruce O. – Rural Research Report, 1995
Rural schools typically face multiple challenges related to providing educational opportunities for students and staff. A comparison of curricular offerings in English, foreign languages, and mathematics in a Chicago suburban high school, a rural high school district, and a small rural unit district reveals the curricular disadvantages of small…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Practices