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Download full textCoe, Pam; Howley, Craig B. – 1989
According to the definition that a rural school district is one in which 75% or more of the population lives outside Standard Metropolitan Areas or in which student density is equal to or less than 10 pupils per square miles, 36 or 65% of West Virginia's 55 counties are classified as rural. State school policies do not specifically recognize the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Rural Areas, Rural Education, Rural Schools
Peer reviewedGloeckler, Lawrence C. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1986
During 1984-85 New York's 14 Early Childhood Direction Centers responded to 10,609 service requests and assisted 5,283 parents, 376 professionals, and 666 agencies in obtaining services for 5,510 handicapped children aged birth to 5. The network operated at a cost of only $218 per child matched to services. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Linking Agents, Outreach Programs
Vaughan, Marianne, Comp.; And Others – 1989
The five states of the Southwest--Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas--represent great diversity in economies, politics, educational settings, and resources. Despite this diversity, research indicates that rural small schools are concerned about the same issues as education as a whole. The purpose of this report is to present the…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Climate, Educational Assessment, Educational Finance
Mrdjenovich, Donald – 1974
The purpose of this paper is to examine cooperative and regional educational service agencies from the viewpoint of the consumer, explaining what users of cooperative and regional services may be seeking now and in the future. Since sufficient school finances will continue to be a problem, educational managers will look to cooperatives for greater…
Descriptors: Administration, Consolidated Schools, Consumer Education, Economics
Mertens, Donna; And Others – 1980
A study examined the vocational and adult education system in isolated rural areas. The study included a review of literature, legislation, and exemplary programs, and conducted interviews with community leaders in twenty isolated, rural counties. Unstructured telephone interviews with representatives of the business, civic, and education sectors,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
Danzig, Arnold; Vandegrift, Judith A. – 1994
Resources available to Arizona through the School-to-Work Opportunities Act will not be concentrated in rural communities, although their educational and economic development needs are proportionately greater. Absent from education reform bills pending in the Arizona House and Senate is any reference to school-to-work transition or any explicit…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1981
This second part of the congressional hearings held in Washington, D.C., in February and March 1981, to reauthorize the Vocational Education Act of 1963 contains 17 pieces of testimony on the special needs of vocational education in rural and urban areas. Persons giving testimony included representatives of the following institutions: Houston…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs, Educational Policy
