Creating Standards for Rural Schools: A Matter of Values.

Harmon, Hobart L.; Branham, Dan H.

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ERIC Number: EJ599019

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Creating Standards for Rural Schools: A Matter of Values.

Harmon, Hobart L.; Branham, Dan H.

High School Magazine, v7 n4 p14-19 Dec 1999

During a 1998 National Rural Education Association symposium, participants indicated that urban-style standards improve rural schools with adequate resources, cause confusion and concern, and conflict with local decision making. To match education standards with rural communities' values, many questions must be resolved in public political forums. (MLH)

Descriptors: Academic Standards, Community Involvement, Educational Improvement, Financial Problems, High Schools, Politics of Education, Resource Allocation, Rural Schools, Rural Urban Differences, School District Autonomy, School District Wealth, Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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