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Peer reviewedWheeler, Trudy – Stage of the Art, 1998
Describes the use of "open scenes" to meet state-mandated educational goals, such as those in Kentucky's Education Reform Act. Discusses how open scenes can be an effective pedagogical technique to develop acting skills and help students meet the goals of current educational reform. Discusses the use of a GOTE sheet (goals, other,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Secondary Education, State Programs, State School District Relationship
Download full textMurphy, Joseph – 1994
This paper presents the insights of superintendents about the school restructuring process in Kentucky and its likely effects. Data were derived from a focus group held with 24 members of the Kentucky Educational Development Corporation (KEDC), and from a survey of 48 superintendents, of which 35 responded. A majority of respondents expressed…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Leadership
Direct linkKannapel, Patricia J.; Coe, Pamelia; Aagaard, Lola; Reeves, Cynthia A. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1999
Describes how local, within-school factors at two rural elementary schools located in different parts of Kentucky influenced efforts to achieve the mandated goals of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). Discusses the tension created by imposing generic reform measures on very different rural places. An appendix presents KERA goals.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Kannapel, Patricia J.; And Others – 1997
In 1990 the Kentucky General Assembly passed one of the most comprehensive and innovative reform laws in the nation, the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Under this law, schools must meet state-defined goals to receive financial rewards. This paper presents findings of a 6-year, field-work study of education reform in four rural Kentucky…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedGuarino, Cassandra M.; Chambers, Jay G. – Journal of Special Education Leadership, 2001
A study investigated the impact of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) on special education by collected data on all 176 school districts for 1989-90 through 1993-94. Findings indicate that KERA had a significant impact on the provision of, and allocation of resources to, special education five years after implementation. (Contains two…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disability Identification, Educational Finance, Educational Innovation
Porter, Maureen K. – 1996
This dissertation examines how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they targeted for reform. Set against the backdrop of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), this ethnographic study describes the challenges of effectively coupling top-down state mandates with bottom-up advocacy and…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change
Porter, Maureen K. – 1996
This dissertation, which won the Dissertation of the Year Award, examines how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they had targeted for reform. Set against the backdrop of the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), this ethnographic study describes the challenges of effectively coupling top-down…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change
Porter, Maureen K. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1996
A year-long ethnographic investigation examined how stakeholders in an Appalachian Kentucky high school addressed educational problems that they had targeted for reform while resisting state priorities and policies mandated in the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA). Contrasts KERA objectives with cultural themes prominent in this poor…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Control, Community Relations, Educational Change
Peer reviewedPorter, Maureen K. – Rural Educator, 1997
Faced with mandated reforms of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990, a mountain community grappled with the challenges of coupling top-down state mandates with bottom-up advocacy and engagement. A year of participant observation revealed six interrelated and paradoxical themes that emerged as these Appalachians created local ownership of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Change
Dixon, Marion W. – 2000
A case study of an economically distressed rural Kentucky school district examined the theory that educational policy can enable community participation and that participation can enable policy implementation by affecting school governance and expanding the services provided. Primary data were gathered via interviews with four parent participants,…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Change
Montgomery, Deborah L. – 1995
This paper describes the views of special education directors in 17 Kentucky school districts concerning effects of a 1990 law, the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA), which called for systemwide change in education and instituted a finance system, Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK), which uses a pupil weighting system. The study…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Disabilities, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
DeYoung, Alan J. – 1998
This paper discusses the Kentucky Education Reform Act (KERA) and its impact on school facilities planning and community involvement in related decision making. Since 1900, the pattern of rural school reform, nationally and in Kentucky, has been one of increased state and federal control, with cost effectiveness and equity the primary criteria in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change Strategies, Consolidated Schools, Educational Change
