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Amie M. Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research study examined the relationship between school leadership style and the use of writing across the curriculum (WAC) in secondary classrooms. Writing practices and the use of writing as a form of assessment in subject areas other than ELA is thought to be a way to better prepare students to meet the literacy expectations of the 21st…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Writing Across the Curriculum, Administrators, Learning Strategies
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Ann K. Schulte; Karen Schreder – Rural Educator, 2024
For rural students, finding one's voice and identity on a college campus and developing a sense of belonging are important for engagement and degree persistence. Rural affinity groups can create a feeling of comfort or connection that affirms students' place identity and can lead to a more successful college experience. Additionally, an organized…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Concept, Sense of Community, Student Organizations
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Lynn A. Tovar – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2024
A small university in rural Texas explored developing a criminal justice bachelor's degree curriculum through the lens of perspective transformation focusing on humanity courses, resulting in a paradigm shift away from a traditional criminal justice baccalaureate degree curriculum. This article addresses the university's journey in developing the…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Rural Areas, Universities, Curriculum Development
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Leichty, Reg – State Education Standard, 2021
The pandemic brought the rural broadband gap into stark relief, as schools shuttered and many families lacked the internet access and devices necessary to connect their students to high-quality online learning. State boards of education can help solve the rural broadband connectivity challenge and expand learning opportunities. To do so, they…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Internet, Access to Education, Rural Areas
Arcidiacono, Peter; Muralidharan, Karthik; Shim, Eun-young; Singleton, John D. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
In this paper, we use a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to school vouchers across both markets and students in rural India to estimate the revealed preference value of school choice. In the first step of the research design, we develop an empirical model of school choice subject to liquidity and credit constraints that is…
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Private Schools
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Okechukwu, Franca O.; Mefoh, Philip C.; Nubia, Uju I.; Nwauzoije, Ezinne J.; Umennuihe, Chidiogo L.; Nwobi, Chibundo A.; Ogba, Kalu T.; Chukweze, Moses E.; Aliche, Joseph C.; Ogbonnaya, Ezeda K.; Okoli, Dorathy N.; Onyekachi, Clara C.; Abang, Stephen; Epistle, Esther; Nnorodi, Chioma; Obi, Chidera V. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2023
Background: Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects children of school-going age and exists in all cultures and backgrounds. Dyslexic children are deficient in phonological awareness, which makes the children to fail to attain the skills of reading, writing and spelling commensurate with their intellectual abilities. Inadequate knowledge…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Test Construction, Test Validity, Questionnaires
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Werchan, Denise M.; Ku, Seulki; Berry, Daniel; Blair, Clancy – Developmental Science, 2023
Sensitive caregiving is an essential aspect of positive parenting that influences executive functions development, but the mechanisms underlying this association are less clear. Using data from the Family Life Project, a large prospective longitudinal sample of 1292 families residing in rural, predominately low-income communities, the current…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Executive Function, Rural Areas
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Batey, Lauren; DeWitt, Emily; Brewer, Dawn; Cardarelli, Kathryn M.; Norman-Burgdolf, Heather – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Background: Health behaviors, like diet, are influenced by a person's culture and the society where they reside, contributing to the presence of health disparities within a unique region. Such disparities are evident in Central Appalachia where a unique cultural identity exists. Culture-based initiatives focused on improving food security and…
Descriptors: Food, Hunger, Geographic Regions, Health Behavior
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Walsh, Aylwyn; Olvera-Hernandez, Silvia; Mesa-Jurado, M. Azahara; Borchi, Alice; Novo, Paula; Martin-Ortega, Julia; Holmes, George – Research in Drama Education, 2023
This article intervenes in the persistent hierarchy of epistemological worth that produces scientific knowledge as meaningful, and knowledge from arts or humanities as marginal, or illustrative. The specific trans-disciplinary project we discuss brings together environmental social sciences with performance-based Forum Theatre methods to explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Sciences, Theater Arts
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Gordon, Rebecca – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
The transformational power of education is considered crucial to improving life outcomes. However, girls in rural India often still face barriers to learning. The literature notes economic and socio-cultural barriers to girls' education which both mediate, and are affected by, parental aspirations. This research explored the aspirations for girls'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Rural Areas, Well Being
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Salomaa, Maria; Charles, David; Bosworth, Gary – Industry and Higher Education, 2023
There is limited experience with innovation policies in rural areas, often based on a one-size-fits-all approach. However, rural businesses have diverse needs and there is difficulty in applying smart specialisation approaches for the use of European Union Cohesion funding in rural areas. A key resource in rural areas is the local university, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Strategies, Rural Areas, School Business Relationship
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Zuckerman, Sarah J. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
Cross-sector school-community partnerships have recently garnered attention for their potential to improve outcomes across multiple child- and family-serving organizations. Despite the central role of schools in rural communities, partnerships in these settings have largely been overlooked in the literature. This structured review examines the…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Ecology
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Sutherland, Daniella Hall; McHenry-Sorber, Erin; Willingham, Jacquelyn N. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2023
For this comprehensive literature review, we begin by framing our study with a scholarship review of the theorizing of place-based leadership and rural administrators. We then synthesize research on the practice and experiences of district administrators, including superintendents, school boards, and other ancillary leaders. We identify multiple…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Rural Schools, Rural Areas, Leadership
Lori A. Wickham – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The current literature documents the historical peripheralization of rural communities and the deficit narratives often imposed upon their schools, students and families. Research further suggests this history of peripheralization is often internalized by those identifying with these communities and that this internalization of deficit…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Small Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness
Karen Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quasi-experimental quantitative study was to investigate the teacher's perceptions of their principals performing as rural instructional leaders in Alabama school systems based on the gender of the principal, years of acquaintance with the principal, and teachers' work experience. Influential instructional leaders practice…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Teacher Attitudes, Principals, Leadership Effectiveness
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