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Fletcher, Ruth; Cole, Jack T. – 1994
This report describes a negotiated evaluation model used to examine the effectiveness of 10 regional center cooperatives (RCCs) that assist small rural New Mexico school districts in implementing provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The 9-month evaluation aimed to determine the scope of existing RCC services, the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperatives, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Drenkhahn, Clarence – 1976
This report discusses the objectives of an exemplary project in sparsely populated southwestern South Dakota which involved nine schools' efforts in the past three years (1974-76) in bringing a variety of vocational education courses to students that none of the districts would have been able to undertake individually, because limited financial…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Descriptions, Demonstration Programs, Mobile Classrooms
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1982
Beginning in 1978, the Rural Education Program at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory developed materials of the Keys to School Boardsmanship Project for local school boards, including 13 workshop packages and 2 films. A policy board, with members from the five northwest state associations of local school boards, defined topics to be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Board of Education Role, Information Dissemination, Leadership Training
Northern Inst. for Research, Training, and Development, Inc., Anchorage, AK. – 1978
A model is proposed for a rural industrial education outreach center which would function on a regional basis providing supportive services to several Alaskan school districts in the areas of needs assessment; identification, purchase, and distribution of instructional materials; design of competency-based programs; teacher orientation and…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Budgets, Delivery Systems, Industrial Arts
Helge, Doris – 1984
A review of five studies by the National Rural Project determined the impact of educational collaboratives on rural special education, including types of educational collaboratives, variations within collaborative structures, benefits of collaboratives for rural special education, problems related to regional service delivery structures, and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Delivery Systems, Educational Cooperation
Nelson, Steven R.; Hegg, Lauren – 1987
This needs assessment identified six educational needs and issues of schools in the Northwest region, prioritized Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) areas of emphasis, evaluated research/development strategies to address these needs and priorities, and applied assessment results to NWREL program planning activities. Assessment…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Cultural Awareness, Educational Cooperation, Educational Innovation


