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Bass, Gail; Berman, Paul – 1979
In recent years rural advocates have claimed that rural students do not get their "fair share" of the federal education dollar and that federal programs are sometimes poorly tailored to rural conditions. These claims of an anti-rural bias have led to a study of fiscal year 1977 federal funding patterns in the six sample states of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation
Download full textFITZPATRICK, MILDRED – 1965
TO RELIEVE THE NON-INSTRUCTIONAL BURDEN UPON THE CLASSROOM TEACHER, THE QUEMADO PUBLIC SCHOOLS EXPERIMENTED WITH A TEACHER AIDE PROGRAM, UTILIZING A SINGLE TEACHER AIDE IN ELEMENTARY LANGUAGE ARTS AND HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMED MATHEMATICS THE FIRST YEAR OF THE PROJECT. AS A RESULT OF THE EXPERIMENT'S SUCCESS, THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL YEAR (1963-1964)…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Planning, Individual Instruction
Slocum, Walter L. – 1968
Previous research studies were reviewed, and hypotheses relating to educational aspiration and occupational choice were developed. Information on educational aspirations and expectations was then obtained from a random sample of students enrolled in 1964-65 in 30 rural Washington high schools. Farm versus non-farm student differences were examined…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Ecological Factors, Educational Experience, High School Students
Davis, J. Clark; McQueen, Robert – 1969
The unique requirements of small school facilities, designed to handle multiple curricular functions within the same operational space, necessitate the creation of educational specifications tying the curriculum to that portion of the facility in which each curriculum component will be implemented. Thus, in planning the facility the major concern…
Descriptors: Acoustical Environment, Building Innovation, Carpeting, Classrooms
Budd, Karol B.; Charlton, J.L. – 1968
The 1948, Arkansas School District Reorganization Act was passed in an effort to reduce the 1589 small school districts to a smaller number. Those districts not consolidated would form county districts. As of the 1967-68 school year, 26 of these county districts remained. The purpose of this study was to provide information drawing attention to…
Descriptors: County School Districts, Educational Quality, Financial Support, Intermediate Administrative Units
Dropkin, Ruth, Ed. – 1975
In this interview (funded via a Title III Elementary Secondary Education Act grant) the roots of progressive education are revealed as Marian Brooks recounts the beginnings of her teaching career in 1924 at the age of 15 in a one room rural New Hampshire school. The interviewer's questions encompass the: (1) nature of the early teacher preparatory…
Descriptors: Activities, Child Development, Community Involvement, Educational History
Erdman, Robert L.; And Others – 1970
Administrative concerns of programs for educable mentally retarded children in small school systems are discussed beginning with preliminary steps of program promotion and development of program rationale. The selection of children is explored in areas of screening methods, individual evaluations, implications of student characteristics, and…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Admission Criteria, Class Size
Sweany, H. Paul – 1969
Changes in occupational patterns of local rural communities and outmigrating rural youth led to apparent deficiencies in small rural schools' vocational, occupational education programs. This project provided in-service workshops to develop courses and to review and revise the curriculum for various occupational fields. The project resulted in…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Enrichment
Allen, James E., Jr. – 1968
The Commissioner of Education of New York discusses James B. Conant's proposal that locally levied taxes be eliminated and replaced by state financing. Local financing of schools has placed serious barriers to the solutions of a number of important educational problems: school segregation resulting from existing school district boundary lines,…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Educational Finance, Educational Problems, Educational Quality
Allen, William W. – 1968
A 2-year evaluation of the small secondary schools program in Oregon views the project from many perspectives. The report briefly discusses the geographical environment of the state, citing the principal occupations of each area. Other aspects discussed include geographical-economic implications for small schools; family structures and ethnic…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Educational Facilities Improvement, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Holmes, Charles; Higgs, Norman E. – 1964
Two projects of individualized instruction are reported in this document. These projects were carried out in small high schools in Colorado and are reported by the instructors involved. Included in the reports are the rationale, objectives, description of student groups, extensive procedural description, and results and recommendations. The…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Discussion Groups, Educational Media, Heterogeneous Grouping
Myers, Dean L., Ed.; And Others – 1974
The feasibility study concerns itself with the possible school district reorganization for the Pawnee and Divernon School Districts. Citizens' committees, boards of education, administration, and teachers provided consultant information about their schools. The evaluation committees, comprised of citizens from the Pawnee and Divernon School…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Consolidated Schools, Curriculum, Dropouts
O'Fallon, O. K.; And Others – 1974
The Invitational Small Schools Conference, held November 1973 in Tennessee, was the starting point in launching the Small Schools Task Force. The primary objectives of this task force are to identify needs and priorities of small schools in Tennessee, to provide leadership for the development of pre- and inservice education programs for small…
Descriptors: Administrators, Conference Reports, Demography, Economics
Clements, William H. – 1970
In the first section of the paper, the writer surveys the literature of the school-size controversy: the research and the opinions. The writer "finds much of the latter and very little of the former upon which to draw conclusions....A section of the publication is devoted to subjective consideration of school characteristics which often tend to…
Descriptors: Counseling, Educational Environment, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria
Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Bureau of Field Studies and Surveys. – 1976
The effects of declining enrollment on one small town school district in Minnesota are examined in this case study, published in conjunction with a planning manual on enrollment decline. This district, located in a predominantly agricultural, rural area, was forced to reduce its staff, close two elementary schools, and reorganize its educational…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Declining Enrollment, Educational Facilities, Educational Finance
