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Mandated Achievement in Rural Kentucky: Contrasting Responses.
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Kannapel, Patricia J.; Coe, Pamelia; Aagaard, Lola; Reeves, Cynthia A. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1999
Describes how local, within-school factors at two rural elementary schools located in different parts of Kentucky influenced efforts to achieve the mandated goals of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA). Discusses the tension created by imposing generic reform measures on very different rural places. An appendix presents KERA goals.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Elementary Education
A Reply to Kannapel, Coe, Aagaard, and Reeves and a Rejoinder to Toni Haas' Reply.
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Haas, Toni; Kannapel, Patricia J.; Coe, Pamelia; Aagaard, Lola; Reeves, Cynthia A. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1999
Haas criticizes Kannapel et al for conducting their "rural" research with school professionals and asks what it would take for rural schools to engage their communities and what, besides geography, makes a school rural. Kannapel et al claim that community concerns are not limited to rural schools and that advocates of systemic reform and rural…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research