Download or read book Improving Rural School Facilities for Teaching and Learning Eric Digest Ed438153 U S Department of EducationIh electronic Resource written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This digest examines the problem of upgrading rural school facilities, focusing on specific rural issues, conditions that interfere with teaching and learning, and new funding approaches. Almost half of U.S. public schools are in rural areas and small towns. Close rural school-community relationships may make it easier to make decisions, communicate with the community, and raise funds for facilities improvement. On the other hand, many rural districts have financial disadvantages: low enrollments, which diminish available construction money; lower property values, which lower the potential to borrow money; and high poverty rates. About half of rural and small-town schools report at least one facility problem. In addition to deterioration because of age, many rural schools must cope with new requirements for teaching and learning. These include laboratory classrooms, flexible instruction areas, multimedia centers, adequate space to accommodate parent involvement and an array of social and health services, electrical wiring and conduits for computers and other technology, accommodations for special needs students, and mandated removal of hazardous building materials. Fixing these problems will be costly, and despite increased school construction nationwide, rural districts have not kept up with urban areas. In 1997, Congress authorized Qualified Zone Academy Bonds to make school renovation funding more accessible to poor school districts. (Contains 18 references.) (SV).
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Download or read book Improving Rural School Facilities written by AEL, Inc and published by Rowman & Littlefield Education. This book was released on 2000 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the condition of rural school facilities varies across the country, most rural school districts face similar issues as they consider new facility construction, renovations, or additions: How to gain public support for funding How to make the best us
Download or read book Innovative Approaches in Rural Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Transforming School Counseling written by Susan Jones Sears and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. This is Volume 41 of the Theory Into Practice series, with focus on Transforming School Counseling, featuring guest editor Susan Jones Sears. This issue showcases a close examination of educational practices in schools serving low-income and minority students with disturbing trends. The articles discuss the findings that students in high-poverty and high-minority schools see little connection between what is being taught and a better future for themselves. Also contained are a variety of proposed reasons to explain why many school counselors are not considered to be change agents.
Download or read book BUILDING SCHOOL TO WORK SYSTEMS IN RURAL AMERICA ERIC DIGEST ED418832 U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION written by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement and published by . This book was released on 1999* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rural Home Schooling and Place based Education Eric Digest Ed459971 U s Department of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2004* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PARENT AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT IN RURAL SCHOOLS ERIC DIGEST ED408143 U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION written by United States. Office of Educational Research and Improvement and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educational Facilities written by Basil Castaldi and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1987 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Facilities written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents some problems and provides much anecdotal information. Presents national information on the amount of funding that the nation's public elementary and secondary schools report needing to improve inadequate facilities and the overall physical condition and prevalence of schools that need major repairs. 24 figures, graphs and tables.
Download or read book Educational Policy and the Law written by David L. Kirp and published by Berkeley, Calif. : McCutchan Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1974 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaping School Culture written by Terrence E. Deal and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2003-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as culture is critical to understanding the dynamics behind any thriving community, organization, or business, the daily realities and deep structure of school life hold the key to educational success. Reforms that strive for educational excellence are likely to fail unless they are meaningfully linked to the school's unique culture. In Shaping School Culture, Terrence E. Deal and Kent D. Peterson show how leaders can harness the power of school culture to build a lively, cooperative spirit and a sense of school identity. The authors draw from over twenty years of research on school improvement as well as from their own extensive work with school leaders across the country to identify viable new strategies for effective school leadership. They describe the critical elements of culture--the purposes, traditions, norms, and values that guide and glue the community together--and show how a positive culture can make school reforms work. Deal and Peterson also explore the harmful characteristics of toxic cultures and suggest antidotes to negativity on the part of teachers, students, principals, or parents. Using real-life cases from their own research, Deal and Peterson provide concrete, detailed illustrations of exemplary practice in different school cultures. They reveal the key symbolic roles that leaders play in school change and identify the specific skills needed to change school culture successfully. Shaping School Culture provides an action blueprint for school leaders committed to transforming their schools for success.
Download or read book The Pursuit of Racial and Ethnic Equality in American Public Schools written by Kristi L. Bowman and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954 the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education; ten years later, Congress enacted the Civil Rights Act. These monumental changes in American law dramatically expanded educational opportunities for racial and ethnic minority children across the country. They also changed the experiences of white children, who have learned in increasingly diverse classrooms. The authors of this commemorative volume include leading scholars in law, education, and public policy, as well as important historical figures. Taken together, the chapters trace the narrative arc of school desegregation in the United States, beginning in California in the 1940s, continuing through Brown v. Board, the Civil Rights Act, and three important Supreme Court decisions about school desegregation and voluntary integration in 1974, 1995, and 2007. The authors also assess the status of racial and ethnic equality in education today and consider the viability of future legal and policy reform in pursuit of the goals of Brown v. Board. This remarkable collection of voices in conversation with one another lays the groundwork for future discussions about the relationship between law and educational equality, and ultimately for the creation of new public policy. A valuable reference for scholars and students alike, this dynamic text is an important contribution to the literature by an outstanding group of authors.
Download or read book Secondary Education in Nigeria written by Segun Adesina and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working in Urban Schools written by Tom Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document on the working conditions of urban teachers reports data from a survey of 31 elementary, middle, and secondary schools in five urban school districts. More than 400 interviews were conducted with teachers, school administrators, central office personnel, district officials, board members, and union officials. The observations, interviews, and analyses confirm that, in most of these schools, the working conditions of teachers are bleak and would not be tolerated in other professions. Among the findings are the following: (1) physical conditions are sub-standard because of a lack of maintenance, repair, and space; (2) safety is not a serious problem to teachers, except in very depressed neighborhoods; (3) teachers do not have even the basic resources needed, let alone access to new technologies; (4) teachers consider hiring more personnel to address the personal problems of students a higher priority than hiring more teachers to reduce class size; (5) teachers generally understand the cultural gulf between them and their students but are unable to deal with what they consider aberrant student behavior; (6) teachers perceive that they are losing control over what they teach, primarily because of district-wide testing policies although they are in control of how they teach; and (7) teachers have little confidence in supervision, staff development, or central office leadership. Characteristics of good working conditions are identified. Tables illustrate the data. Appendices compare these findings with those of other studies, provide a list of about 100 references, describe the methodology, and compare school effects. (BJV)
