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Download full textPhillip D. Grant; J. Kessa Roberts; Jamon H. Flowers – Rural Educator, 2025
This article introduces asset-based innovation in rural education (ABIRE) as a framework for rethinking school improvement in rural communities and integrates the ethics of care as a conceptual lens to view improvement efforts. Rather than focusing on external problems or shortcomings, ABIRE centers the strengths, relationships, and resources…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Rural Population, Rural Education, Educational Improvement
Harmon, Hobarat L.; Schafft, Kai – Rural Educator, 2009
In this article we address the role of rural schools in community development. We first discuss the largely historical linkages between rural schools and the communities they serve, and what this means for both school and community well-being. We then consider the newly revised standards for preparing school administrators, developed by the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Rural Schools, Instructional Leadership, School Community Relationship
Peer reviewedMulkey, David – Rural Educator, 1992
Examines the potential role of the rural school within the context of community development. Clarifies the differences between community growth and community development, and between community development and economic development. Rural community development is a process of developing the capacity of rural residents to identify common interests…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Role of Education
Peer reviewedShaw, Curt; Scheer, Kendall; Higbee, Paul – Rural Educator, 2000
Describes the development of entrepreneurship programs for youth in rural Nebraska and South Dakota. Discusses the cooperative efforts of four institutions and organizations to promote entrepreneurship education, school-based activities tied to entrepreneurship and community development, and the importance of peer networks and community awareness…
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Cooperation, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedCarlson, Robert V. – Rural Educator, 1992
Uses a case study approach to determine how a rural supervisory union school district and its communities attempted to improve the union's economic feasibility and address important school needs. Efforts appear to have resulted in greater teacher involvement, commitment, and ownership of subsequent changes and promotion of teachers to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Development, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Eady, Charlotte King; Zepeda, Sally J. – Rural Educator, 2007
The perspectives of three rural middle school principals as they implement Georgia's A Plus Education Reform Act of 2000 were investigated in this study. A case study approach was used, employing both within case and cross case analyses. Three interviews were conducted with each of the three participants, resulting in a total of nine interviews.…
Descriptors: School Schedules, Middle Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Supervision
