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Bertram, Charles L. – 1977
Administered by the 21-member School Community Council (SCC), the Fort Gay-Thompson Urban/Rural project attempts to involve both school personnel and community representatives in the planning of the community's educational program. The project's major goals are to develop and implement comprehensive staff training, and to combine efforts of staff…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Involvement, Educational Programs, Educational Radio
Barnhardt, Ray – 1973
The program known as the Alaska Rural Teacher Training Corps (ARTTC) was established in 1970 as a 4-year experimental program to train Native elementary school teachers for rural Alaskan native communities or for any school in the country where an Alaskan teaching certificate is acceptable. The beginning group included an even distribution of…
Descriptors: American Indians, Curriculum Design, Elementary School Teachers, Experimental Programs
Cole, R.; And Others – 1990
Many rural communities share these complaints: (1) an exodus of the best and brightest young people; (2) a changing and ambivalent self-concept about the identity and the future of the community; and (3) a scarcity of good jobs to act as the mortar that bonds the other elements together. The South Dakota Rural Schools and Community Development…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Development, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Misanchuk, Earl R.; Shipley, Ken G. – 1977
A survey was conducted to explore the potential of weekly newspapers for information dissemination in rural Saskatchewan. Articles about engineering research of relevance to the community had been mailed to eighty weekly Canadian newspapers on a free-choice basis over a ten month period. A random sample of 1,020 subscribers selected from the…
Descriptors: Colleges, Community Development, Community Education, Educational Research
Bertram, Charles L.; And Others – 1976
Purpose of the Fort Gay-Thompson Urban/Rural project was to combine the efforts of school and community persons so as to provide a more effective educational program for the west central section of Wayne County, West Virginia. To date, the school-community planning process had resulted in needs assessment and career education programs,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Career Education, Community Education, Community Involvement
Quickel, Rosemary L.; Wise, James E. – 1982
The Horry County, South Carolina, Reading Crusade, a joint effort of the Literacy Council and the school district, was begun in 1979-80 with the intent of raising the literacy level of adults. The school district's Adult and Community Education Department provided office space, telephones, lab space, salaries, and mileage for the coordinators. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Community Resources
Percy, Virginia R. – 1981
The evaluation of the Syracuse University School of Nursing's masters program in nursing of the rural aging is considered. The evaluation was designed to determine the effectiveness of the training program and its impact on the rural community. Four major issues related to the effectiveness of the training program are as follows: student and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Community Satisfaction, Course Evaluation