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Kimber L. Wilkerson; Rebekka Olsen; Melinda M. Leko; Andrea Ruppar; Rui Dai – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2025
The article describes a promising new, fully virtual, multicomponent professional development intervention to support special education teachers in rural U.S. schools who enter the profession without full state licensure. The intervention seeks to strengthen special educators' self-efficacy in relation to classroom and behavior management, and…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Special Education, Special Education Teachers
Kuenzi, Jeffrey J. – Congressional Research Service, 2021
The Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) is authorized by Part B of Title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, P.L. 114-95) in 2015. Congress created this program to address the unique needs of rural schools that disadvantage them relative to non-rural schools. To…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Federal Programs, Academic Achievement, Educational Legislation
Farra, Susan M.; Whitney, Todd; Cooper, Justin T.; Lingo, Amy S.; Hovious-Furgason, Maqenzi – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2022
Although rural special educators face many challenges in meeting the needs of students with disabilities, they often report having positive relationships with their students and families. Rural educators have the opportunity to leverage this relationship with families by having parents implement academic interventions with their child at home. The…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Students with Disabilities, Special Education, Parent Role
Heyward, Georgia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2018
The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has been studying the four-day school week since 2015. Since then, the phenomenon of the four-day school week has spread into non-rural areas and interest appears to be growing. Given these apparent changes, the author wanted to know more about recent trends in the initiative. As districts continue…
Descriptors: School Schedules, School Districts, Rural Areas, Rural Schools
Ohlson, Matthew; Johnson, Jerry; Shope, Shane; Rivera, Jennifer – Rural Educator, 2018
The Essential Three (e3) is a professional learning series that focuses on supporting rural school districts and school leaders as they engage in the important work of prioritizing and determining areas of instructional focus. As educators transition to new rigorous state and national standards and face the challenges of learning newly adopted…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Partnerships in Education, Consortia
Brenner, Devon – Rural Educator, 2019
This policy brief summarizes and critiques the findings of the US Department of Education's Section 5005 Report on Rural Education. In September of 2018, the Department of Education released the "Section 5005 Report on Rural Education: Final Report." The report was written in response to a provision of the Every Student Succeeds Act of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Rural Education
US Department of Education, 2018
On Dec. 10, 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) (P.L. 114-95) became law. ESSA primarily reauthorizes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), but includes other provisions as well. Among these, Section 5005 requires the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) to "review the organization, structure, and process…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Rural Education
Kuenzi, Jeffrey J. – Congressional Research Service, 2017
The Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP) is authorized by Part B of Title V of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, P.L. 114-95) in 2015. Congress created this program to address the unique needs of rural schools that disadvantage them relative to non-rural schools. To…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Academic Achievement, Federal Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Wu, Echo H. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2017
The author interviewed Dr. Carolyn Callahan, an eminent scholar in gifted education. The interview focused on Dr. Callahan's work on implementing gifted program in rural areas, and illustrated her suggestions for teachers, researchers, and parents on how to advocate for gifted students.
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Common Core State Standards
Yettick, Holly; Baker, Robin; Wickersham, Mary; Hupfeld, Kelly – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to inform the upcoming and overdue reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) by exploring whether rural school districts face disadvantages as they attempt to follow the law's provisions and, if so, if the law's rural-specific section ameliorates these disadvantages. The research drew upon…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, School Districts, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Nawab, Ali – Teacher Development, 2017
In-service courses have been used as a common strategy to build the capacity of teachers to meet the constantly changing demands of modern schooling. But how the teachers implement the ideas and strategies acquired from such in-service training and what conditions influence the implementation process is the least examined area in Pakistan,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Public School Teachers, Public Schools
Alexander, Patricia, Ed.; Levine, Felice J., Ed.; Tate, William, Ed. – American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2016
The centennial volume of "Review of Research in Education" ("RRE") takes a "retrospective, prospective" approach on a diverse range of education research topics spanning the last 100 years. While using historical trends as foundations for their chapters, the authors also look ahead to the most challenging issues and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational History, Educational Trends, Research Methodology
Headden, Susan – Education Sector, 2012
Educational achievement in rural America is one of the country's great overlooked challenges. Rural students achieve below the U.S. average on national tests, and high school dropout rates are higher and college attendance lower than they are in cities and suburbs. When the U.S. Department of Education asks low-achieving schools to be turned…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropouts, College Attendance, Charter Schools
Kalkowski, Page; And Others – 1991
This manual is designed to help rural Chapter 1 program staff effectively run their programs. Upon reviewing the history of the Chapter 1 legislation and program, the document stresses program design, evaluation, and improvement as three easy ways to understanding the Chapter 1 program. Program design should determine the district eligibility for…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Program Administration
Hamann, Edmund T.; Meltzer, Julie – Education Alliance at Brown University, 2005
Between 2001 and 2005, the state of Maine shifted the focus of its statewide high school improvement efforts to include an explicit focus on adolescent literacy. One trigger for that change in focus was a 5-school adolescent literacy initiative previously launched in a rural county under the federal Northeast and Islands Regional Educational…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Rural Areas, Rural Education