1st Edition
Rural Education In Search Of A Better Way
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
326 Pages
by
Routledge
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The close-knit, personal nature of small rural communities results in school and community operating as a single integrated social structure. Useful rural school improvement strategies must, therefore, address needs that are recognized by both the local school and the community and must operate in a style congruent with the local setting. Although outside ideas and resources may contribute greatly... Read more
Also of Interest -- Preface -- Rural Education in America: Some Background -- Education in Rural America: An Overview -- Rural School Improvement Efforts: An Interpretive History -- A Montage of Rural Education Improvement Efforts -- “Going Open” in North Dakota: The New School for Behavioral Studies in Education -- The Teacher Corps in Mississippi: Washington Strategy Against Delta Dilemmas -- Natives and Newcomers: Vermont’s Mountain Towns Teachers’ Center -- Holistic Change: The Experimental Schools Program in Oregon -- Taking Education to the Crossroads: Texas’s Regional Education Service Centers -- Getting on the Bandwagon: Maine Schools Discover the National Diffusion Network -- The Urban/Rural Program: Can the Government Buy Change in Rural Schools? -- San Juan, Utah: Ending a White-Indian School Battle by the “Process Method” -- The Leadership Development Program: Facilitating New Leadership for Rural Education -- “Have You Considered Reorganization?” Iowa’s People United for Rural Education -- Elk River, Idaho: The Pursuit of Quality Schooling in a Threatened Community -- Gary, Texas: The Rise of Loblolly -- Staples, Minnesota: Improving the Schools to Save the Town -- Interpreting the Montage -- Rural America: Multiple Realities -- What Worked and Why -- One Practitioner’s Notes -- Theme V: Accepting Rural Reality
Biography
Paul M. Nachtigal is director of the Rural Education Project at the Mid-continent Regional Education Laboratory. Prior to working on the study encompassed by this book, he was a project specialist with the Ford Foundation and served as superintendent of schools in several Colorado communities.
