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Download full textRude-Parkins, Carolyn – 1987
This presentation offers a design for developing a long term staff improvement program using the talents available in a small or rural school district with low financial resources, limited personnel time, and difficulty in obtaining outside training. The plan focuses on improving teaching skills through a participatory structure involving peer…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Peer Teaching, Program Development
Dreier, William H. – 1987
A questionnaire sent to organizations and programs in rural education was designed to identify institutions displaying early school artifacts. Responses were received from 19 of the 30 states surveyed. The study found 11 university or college museums that have a one-room school as part of their collection. In addition, state parks and county…
Descriptors: Educational History, Exhibits, Higher Education, Museums
Sullivan, James V. – 1982
During the 1979-80 academic year, a study was conducted to determine the beliefs and attitudes held by individuals in four groups (students, parents, teachers, and administrators) directly associated with the student activity program in a small Mississippi high school using ethnographic techniques. Ethnographic techniques involve the direct…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Ethnography
Stein, Gary, Ed. – 1983
The 14 symposium papers presented in this document provide a diverse historical and personal interpretation of Alaska's educational development. Titles and authors are: "Conflicting Priorities, Conflicting Opinions: Alaskan Development and Sheldon Jackson, Educator" (Ted Hinckley); "Sheldon Jackson and the Constitutionality of the…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Church Role, Educational Development
Nash, Roy – 1977
Presenting a brief history of the rural village school in Great Britain, this paper addresses the pros and cons of consolidation. Drawing upon a Schools' Council survey (1975), research conducted in North Wales re: population decrease, and research on more than 600 pupils in 26 schools re: reading attainment, the problems of cost are analyzed in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Consolidated Schools, Costs, Delivery Systems
Hoyle, John R. – 1978
The purpose of the study was to refine a method to identify critical tasks and administrative behaviors utilized to effectively administer a specialized program in smaller school districts. Vocational education was the special program investigated. Data were gathered by personal interviews with 72 superintendents and a composite of 85 high school…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Occupational Information
Beckner, Weldon; Foster, Jeannine – 1978
Questionnaires were sent to 373 administrators in West Texas school districts with less than 500 students. The purpose of the study was to survey small school administrators' interest in leadership training through inservice education; to explore the areas of such interest; and to determine the preferences for type, location, and duration of such…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Role, Administrators
Stalick, Robert; And Others – 1976
This publication was prepared for the Alaska Department of Education in order to supplement units C and E of the 1976 "Guide for Planning Educational Facilities." It is intended to provide school districts with process guidelines for community participation in the planning of school facilities, particularly small secondary school…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Educational Facilities, Educational Objectives, Educational Specifications
Moore, Nelson Randolph – 1977
Under Broward County's (Florida) decentralized school finance program, each school principal was given $686 per student to operate his school, regardless of the school's size. As a result, small schools were unable to provide the same special services as larger schools, since they could not afford special teachers for physical education, music,…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Budgeting, Decentralization, Educational Finance
Losure, Joyce – 1982
The fifth annual conference of People United for Rural Education (PURE) focused on developing alternative strategies in a time of austerity. In two general sessions recognized national leaders gave a conference overview and spoke on the roots of rural education inequity and the National Institute of Education's rural education research initiative.…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role
Melder, Ellis M. – 1978
A study was conducted to examine the effects of sentence combining instruction on the writing performance of both black students and students from small high schools enrolled in freshman composition classes. Subjects were 56 students enrolled in two sections of freshman composition, with one section receiving practice in sentence combining. The…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Higher Education
Priority Country Area Program Office, Brisbane (Australia). – 1979
Interviews, questionnaires, school visits, and examination of project films and documents supplied information for an interim evaluation of the effectiveness of the Roctapus (Really Outstanding Color Television About Practically Unlimited Subjects) program. A closed-circuit television series following a magazine format, Roctapus is distributed to…
Descriptors: Closed Circuit Television, Cultural Enrichment, Demonstration Programs, Educational Television
Cowan, William J. – 1978
Three Prince Albert school districts and the Community Health Region cooperated to deliver speech therapy services to rural areas; the cooperative program provided services that could not have been funded by the agencies acting independently. The agencies shared responsibility for funding, administration, and implementation of the program. Goals…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent School Relationship
Western States Small Schools Project, Salt Lake City, UT. – 1966
THIS DOCUMENT DISCUSSES PROCEDURES AND POTENTIALS FOR INDIVIDUALIZING INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS IN SMALL RURAL SCHOOLS. FOUR FACTORS ARE SEEN TO BE OPERANT IN THE INDIVIDUALIZATION PROCESS. THESE ARE THE INSTRUCTOR, THE CURRICULUM AND SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS, ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE, AND PHYSICAL FACILITIES. NEW INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES SHOULD BE…
Descriptors: Administration, Curriculum Development, Facilities, Independent Study
NACHTIGAL, PAUL M.; STENSON, WILBUR L. – 1964
THIS DOCUMENT IS THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COLORADO WESTERN STATES SMALL SCHOOLS PROJECT, JULY 1, 1963-JUNE 30, 1964. THE DOCUMENT IDENTIFIES--(1) THE MEMBER SCHOOLS, (2) THE AREAS OF PROGRESS, (3) THE AREAS NEEDING IMPROVEMENT, (4) THE PROGRAMS IN USE, (5) THE FUTURE PROGRAMS, AND (6) THE ANNUAL WORKSHOP MEMBERS. IN ADDITION, THE PARTICIPATING…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Autoinstructional Aids, Curriculum, Curriculum Development
