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ERIC Number: EJ433480
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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ISSN: ISSN-8756-0534
Community Schools in the National Context: The Social and Cultural Impact of Educational Reform Movements on American Rural Schools.
DeYoung, Alan J.; Theobald, Paul
Journal of Research in Rural Education, v7 n3 p3-14 Sum 1991
Examines political, social, cultural, and economic variables that historically have contributed to rural resistance to educational reform. Discusses various roles of schools in the rural community. Demonstrates that the seeds of current debates on issues such as local versus national control of school reform are in the past. Contains 44 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Centralization, Consolidated Schools, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Modernization, Resistance to Change, Role of Education, Rural Education, Rural Schools, School Districts, Social Influences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Historical Materials
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Rural Culture