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Glover, Todd A.; Nugent, Gwen C.; Chumney, Frances L.; Ihlo, Tanya; Shapiro, Edward S.; Guard, Kirra; Koziol, Natalie; Bovaird, Jim – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2016
Teachers Speak was a national survey study designed to investigate the characteristics of rural elementary school teachers' existing professional development; differences in professional development practices between rural and non-rural settings; and the potential influence of professional development characteristics on rural teachers' knowledge,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Professional Development
Howley, Aimee; Howley, Craig; Dudek, Marged – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2016
Perhaps the most maligned group of people in the United States, atheists and other nonbelievers (e.g., agnostics and freethinkers) reside everywhere and are employed in every field. Disclosure of nonbelief generally imposes costs, such as alienation from family and associates or even loss of employment. As a result, nonbelievers often disguise…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Education, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Pyles, Damiana Gibbons – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2016
Through an analysis of a corpus of youth-produced documentary video data collected at a youth media arts organization in rural Appalachia, I explore how these rural youth engaged in media literacy practices through creating documentary videos about themselves and their community. Using a theoretical foundation in literacies research, especially…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Media Literacy, Video Technology, Rural Youth
Gagnon, Douglas J.; Mattingly, Marybeth J. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
The Excellent Educators for All initiative is the most recent federal policy effort to address unequal access to teacher quality in the United States. States were required to submit equity plans to the U.S. Department of Education that detailed how to ensure that poor and minority children do not receive instruction from less qualified teachers.…
Descriptors: State Policy, Rural Schools, Rural Education, Teacher Competencies
Waller, Rachael; Barrentine, Shelby J. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
Schooling can play a role in bolstering a sense of community, but research suggests that curriculum may serve to isolate teachers and students from their rural surroundings. In this qualitative case study, we asked if the literacy curriculum and instruction supported readers to make connections to their rural setting. We analyzed curriculum…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Rural Schools, Place Based Education, Reading Instruction
Tekniepe, Robert J. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
Rural school districts play an important part in the national educational landscape. Not only do they provide nearly one in four U.S. children with many skills, including those needed to enter college, but they also act as an economic stabilization force for the communities that they serve. Superintendents of rural school districts, as the leaders…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Superintendents, Rural Areas, Persistence
Hunt-Barron, Sarah; Tracy, Kelly N.; Howell, Emily; Kaminski, Rebecca – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
This case study examines the use of online tools, including blogs, as a means of enhancing face-to-face professional development in writing instruction for teachers in rural districts. Since many rural districts serve large physical areas that are geographically distant from larger metropolitan areas and/or colleges and universities, teachers in…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Barriers, Faculty Development, Case Studies
Koziol, Natalie A.; Arthur, Ann M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Bovaird, James A.; Bash, Kirstie L.; McCormick, Carina; Welch, Greg W. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
Defining rural is a critical task for rural education researchers, as it has implications for all phases of a study. However, it is also a difficult task due to the many ways in which rural can be theoretically, conceptually, and empirically operationalized. This article provides researchers with specific guidance on important theoretical and…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Education, Statistical Analysis, Educational Research
Hlinka, Karen R.; Mobelini, Deronda C.; Giltner, Terri – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
This article describes a qualitative study examining factors influencing the decision-making processes of traditional-age students living in rural, southeastern Kentucky as they progress toward acquiring a bachelor's degree using the community college as a steppingstone. Specifically, this study explored students' perspectives of the factors that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Rural Areas, Student Attitudes
Barrett, Nathan; Cowen, Joshua; Toma, Eugenia; Troske, Suzanne – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
In-service teacher professional development has been used to improve teacher effectiveness. In Kentucky, the National Science Foundation funded a large professional development program called the Appalachian Math and Science Partnership (AMSP) to provide content-based professional development to teachers in rural schools. We show that students…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Faculty Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness
Azano, Amy Price; Stewart, Trevor Thomas – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
This article examines efforts made by a teacher preparation program to provide pre-service teachers with an introduction to the rural context, strategies for place-based pedagogy, and a field experience in rural schools. The study explores the influence of these efforts, along with how students' sense of place and educational upbringing, might be…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Theories
Lind, Tommy; Stjernström, Olof – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2015
In this study, the spatial structure of primary schools and alternative organizational frameworks are studied in a number of rural municipalities in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The aim of the study is to investigate how the spatial structure of schools has changed between the years 2008 and 2013 in these municipalities, what…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Information Technology, Municipalities, Elementary Schools
Wilcox, Kristen Campbell; Angelis, Janet I.; Baker, Linda; Lawson, Hal A. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2014
What are the qualities of classroom, school, and district processes and practices in rural high schools with higher-than average graduation rates? How do these processes and practices compare with rural schools with histories of average graduation rates? In this study, six schools were sampled for a multiple case study of rural high school…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, High School Students, High Schools, Graduation
Taylor, Alison; Servage, Laura; Hamm, Zane – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2014
This article examines two Canadian high school work experience programs that focus on rural youth. The first encourages students to consider work in skilled trades, while the second encourages them to become qualified as healthcare aides. Both programs were designed to encourage high school students to explore careers in fields where labor market…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Work Experience Programs, Rural Education
Azano, Amy Price – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2014
In their recent article, "Motives for Dissertation Research at the Intersection between Rural Education and Curriculum and Instruction," Howley, Howley, and Yahn (2014) (see ERIC Document: EJ1040785) describe a rigorous and time-consuming study examining rural education dissertations written over the last 25 years. Howley, Howley, and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Rural Education, Educational Research, Doctoral Programs