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The Small Rural School Principalship: Key Challenges and Cross-School Responses
Karen Starr and Simone White
Deakin University
Differences in Child Care Quality in Rural and Non-Rural Areas
Erin Maher, Becki Frestedt
University of Washington
Cathy Grace
Mississippi State University
Social Class, Amish Culture, and an Egalitarian Ethos: Case Study from a Rural School Serving Amish Childen
Aimee Howley, Craig Howley, Larry Burgess, and Drew Pusateri
Ohio University
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The Pennsylvania State University
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Volume 23 (2008, fifth online volume, first volume at Penn State)
| Author(s) | Title |
| No. 1 J. Edmondson A. D'Urso |
(Book Review)
Rural Literacies (by K. Donehower, C. Hogg, and E. E. Schell) |
| No. 2 J. Hayes-Conroy |
(Book Review)
Place-Based Education in the Global Age: Local Diversity (D. Gruenewald and G. Smith, Eds.) |
| No. 3 A. Howley C. Howley L. Burgess D. Pusateri |
Social Class, Amish Culture, and an Egalitarian Ethos: Case Study from a Rural School Serving Amish Children |
| No. 4 E. J. Maher B. Frestedt |
Differences in Child Care Quality in Rural and Non-Rural Areas |
| No. 5 K. Starr S. White |
The Small Rural School Principalship: Key Challenges and Cross-School Responses |
Volume 22 (2007, fourth online volume)
Volume 21 (2006, third online volume)
Volume 20 (2005, second online volume)
Volume 19 (2004, first online volume )
| Author(s) | Title |
| No. 1 A. Woodrum |
State-mandated testing and cultural resistance in Appalachian schools: Competing values and expectations) |
| No. 2 E. Chenoweth R. V. Galliher |
Factors influencing college aspirations of rural West Virginia high school students |
| No. 3 S. Grip |
Projecting Enrollment in Rural Schools: A Study of Three Vermont School Districts |
| No. 4 D. Gallaudet |
Book Review: Small High Schools that Flourish: Rural Context, Case Studies and Resources ( C. Howley and H. Harmon, Eds.) Book Review: Not So Easy Going: The Policy Environments of Small Urban Schools and Schools-Within-Schools (by M. A. Raywid and G. Schmerler et al.) |
Volume 18, No. 3 (Winter 2003, Final Print Issue)
| Author(s) | Title |
| G. Danaher B. Moriarty P. A. Danaher |
Guest Editors' Introduction to Special Issue: Bush Lessons Down Under |
| B. Moriarty P. A. Danaher G. Danaher |
Situating and Interrogating Contemporary Australian Rural Education Research |
| L. Jarzabkowski | Teacher Collegiality in a Remote Australian School |
| C. Mills T. Gale |
Transient Teachers: Mixed Messages of Schooling in Regional Australia |
| J. Luck | Does Geography Shape the Nature of an Educational Innovation? |
| B. Moriarty B. Gray |
Future Directions: A Model for Educational Partnerships in Australia |
| P. A. Danaher G. Danaher B. Moriarty |
Space Invaders and Pedagogical Innovators: Regional Educational Understandings from Australian Occupational Travelers |
| T. Evans | Beating Around the Bush: Reflections on the Theme |
Volume 18, No. 2 (Fall 2003)
| Author(s) | Title |
| J. Lee | Evaluating Rural Progress in Mathematics Achievement: Threats to the Validity of "Adequate Yearly Progress" |
| G. P. Green V. Galetto A. Haines |
Collaborative Job Training in Rural Areas |
| C. B. Howley E. Gunn |
Research About Mathematics Achievement in the Rural Circumstance |
| K. Mitchem D. Wells J. Wells |
Using Evaluation to Ensure Quality Professional Development in Rural Schools |
| B. A. Burnell | The "Real World" Aspirations of Work-Bound Rural Students |
| K. Singh S. Dika |
The Educational Effects of Rural Adolescents' Social Networks |
Volume 18, No. 1 (Spring 2003)
| Author(s) | Title |
| T. A. Lyson | What Does a School Mean to a Community? Assessing the Social and Economic Benefits of Schools to Rural Villages in New York |
| D. L. Holloway | Using Research to Ensure Quality Teaching in Rural Schools |
| L. Dappen J. C. Isernhagen |
TeamMates: A Model to Support Mentoring in Rural Schools |
| M. Hawkes P. Halverson B. Brockmueller |
Technology Facilitation in the Rural School: An Analysis of Options |
| A. Howley K. Chadwick C. Howley |
Networking for the Nuts and Bolts: The Ironies of Professional Development for Rural Principals |
| T. Coladarci J. Hancock |
Grade-span Configuration |
Volume 17, No. 2 (Fall 2001)
| Author(s) | Title |
| R. R. Powell D. Sobel R. S. Hess M. Verdi |
The Relationships Between Situated Cognition and Rural Preservice Teachers' Knowledge and Understanding of Diversity |
| W. L. Sherman P. Theobald |
Progressive Era Rural Reform: Creating Standard Schools in the Midwest |
| J. T. Goddard S. R. Habermann |
Accessing the Knowledge Base of Retired Teachers: Experiences in Establishing a Formal Mentoring Program in a Rural School Division |
| G. W. Loveland | A Greater Fairness: May Justus as Popular Educator |
| MCEETYA Taskforce | National Framework for Rural and Remote Education in Australia |
| M. W. Dewalt | The Growth of Amish Schools in the United States |
Volume 17, No. 1 (Spring 2001)
| Author(s) | Title |
| J. Edmondson | Prairie Town: Rural Life and Literacies |
| J. W. Kushman R. Barnhardt |
Reforming Education from the Inside-Out: A Study of Community Engagement and Educational Reform in Rural Alaska |
| D. Leo-Nyquist | Recovering a Tradition of Rural Progressivism in American Public Education |
| C. B. Howley A. A. Howley S. Shamblen |
Riding the School Bus: A Comparison of the Rural and Suburban Experience in Five States |
| N. Jennings | Book Review: Elementary Change: Moving Toward Systemic School Reform in Rural Kentucky (by P. Kannapel, L. Aagaard, P. Coe, and C. Reeves) |
| K. Reed P. Theobald |
Book Review: Elementary Change: Moving Toward Systemic School Reform in Rural Kentucky (by P. Kannapel, L. Aagaard, P. Coe, and C. Reeves) |
| Author(s) | Title |
| T. Sherwood | Where Has All the "Rural" Gone? Rural Education Research and Current Federal Reform |
| J. Lee W. G. McIntire |
Interstate Variation in the Mathematics Achievement of Rural and Nonrural Students |
| J. J. D´Amico Vickie Nelson |
How on Earth Did You Hear About Us? A Study of Exemplary Rural School Practices in the Upper Midwest |
| N. E. Jennings | Standards and Local Curriculum: A Zero-Sum Game? |
| P. J. Kannapel | Standards-Based Reform and Rural School Improvement: Finding the Middle Ground |
Volume 16, No. 2 (Fall 2000)
| Author(s) | Title |
| E. Beeson M. Strange |
Why Rural Matters: The Need for Every State to Take Action on Rural Education |
| M. Corbett | Book Review: Struggling for the Soul: The Politics of Schooling and the Construction of the Teacher (by T. Popkewitz) |
| J. D. Johnson C. B. Howley |
Book Review: The Country and the City (by R. Williams) |
Volume 16, No. 1 (Spring 2000)
| Author(s) | Title |
| D. L. Haleman A. J. DeYoung |
A Reflective Essay Concerning Something Better: The Experiences of Appalachian Rural Trust Schools |
| S. A. Swidler | Notes on a Country School Tradition: Recitation as an Individual Strategy |
| P. Cox | Regional and Gender Differences in Mathematics Achievement |
| G. Butera L. McMullen R. Phillips |
Energy Express: Connecting Communities and Intervention on Behalf of Schoolchildren in West Virginia |
| V. J. Storey | The First Five Years: A Follow-up Study of a Rural Teacher Cohort |
| C. B. Howley | An Agenda for Studying Rural School Busing |
Volume 15, No. 3 (Winter 1999)
| Author(s) | Title |
| N. E. Jennings | Reform in Small Places: Examining Two Rural Schools' Implementation of State Reform |
| J. W. Rojewski | Career-Related Predictors of Work-Bound and College-Bound Status of Adolescents in Rural and Nonrural Areas |
| M. E. Whiting | The University and the White, Rural Male |
| C. B. Howley A. Howley W. Larson |
Do Rural and Suburban Pripcipals approach Planning Differently? A Two-State Comparison |
| M. D. O'Quinn | Getting Above Our Raising: A Case Study of Women from the Coalfields of Southwest Virginia and Eastern Kentucky |
Volume 15, No. 2 (Fall 1999)
| Author(s) | Title |
| P. J. Kannapel A. J. DeYoung |
The Rural School Problem in 1999: A Review and Critique of the Literature |
| M. Bushnell | Imagining Rural Life: Schooling as a Sense of Place |
| R. E. Pearson J. M. Sutton, Jr. |
Rural and Small Town School Counselors |
| N. K. Martin Z. Yin |
Beliefs Regarding Classroom Management Style: Differences Between Urban and Rural Secondary Level Teachers |
| D. Post A. Stambach |
District Consolidation and Rural School Closure: E Pluribus Unum? |
| P. Theobald | Book Review: There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa (by D. R. Reynolds) |
Volume 15, No. 1 (Spring 1999)
| Author(s) | Title |
| C. B. Howley H. L. Harmon |
Introduction to Special Issue |
| P. J. Kannapel P. Coe L. Aagaard C. A. Reeves |
Mandated Achievement in Rural Kentucky: Contrasting Responses |
| T. Haas | A Reply to Kannapel, Coe, aagaard, and Reeves |
| P. J. Kannapel P. Coe L. Aagaard C. A. Reeves |
A Rejoinder to Toni Haas' Reply |
| R. B. Pittman D. McGinty C. I. Gerstl-Pepin |
Educational Attainment, Economic Progress, and the Goals of Education in Rural Communities |
| X. Fan M. J. Chen |
Academic Achievement of Rural School Students: A Multi-Year Comparison with Their Peers in Suburban and Urban Schools |
| M. F. Hughes | Similar Students-Dissimilar Opportunities for Success: High- and Low-Achieving Elementary Schools in Rural, High Poverty Areas of West Virginia |
| A Policy Statement of the Rural Challenge | An Invitation to Discuss Standards in Public Schools |
Volume 14, No. 3 (Winter 1998)
Volume 14, No. 2 (Fall 1998)
| Author(s) | Title |
| B. L. Ludlow | Preparing Special Education Personnel for Rural Schools: Current Practices and Future Directions |
| W. L. Tada M. T. Baer N. B. Robinson H. Ichiho |
Meeting the Nutrition and Feeding Needs of Children with Disabilities: A Training Model for Health and Education Personnel in the Outer Pacific |
| G. Butera | Family-Focused Rural Early Intervention Personnel Preparation: Family Stories and Student Development |
| L. A. Bloom J. Habel |
Cliques, Clans, Community, and Competence: The Experiences of Students with Behavioral Disorders in Rural School Systems |
| N. B. Robinson W. L. Tada M. Lee A. Atkinson N. Rekemesik |
Where There Are No Therapists: The Related Services Assistant Alternative |
| A. J. Artesani D. W. Brown |
Special Education: Challenges for Rural School Systems |
Volume 14, No. 1 (Spring 1998)
| Author(s) | Title |
| J. M. Ispa K. R. Thornburg J. Venter-Barkley |
Parental Child Care Selection Criteria and Program Quality in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Communities |
| R. B. Pittman M. J. R. Herzog |
Evaluation of a Year-Round Schedule in a Rural School District |
| R. Rees S. Woodward |
Twinned Schools in Ontario: A Description and a Comparison |
| D. J. Young | Ambition, Self-Concept, and Achievement: A Structural Equation Model for Comparing Rural and Urban Students |
| K. Murry S. Herrera |
Crisis in the Heartland: Addressing Unexpected Challenges in Rural Education |
Volume 13, No. 3 (Winter 1997)
Volume 13, No. 2 (Fall 1997)
| Author(s) | Title |
| N. Khattri K. W. Riley M. B. Kane |
Students at Risk in Poor, Rural Areas: A Review of the Research |
| A. Howley R. Bickel M. McDonough |
The Call for Parent Involvement in Rural Communities: Mantra and Mystification |
| J. McClelland | Knowing and Being Known: Parents' Experiences with Rural Schools |
| K. R. Thornburg M. C. Mathews L. Espinosa J. Ispa |
Perceptions of Child Care in Rural America |
| C. B. Howley | How to Make Rural Education Research Rural: An Essay at Practical Advice |
Volume 13, No. 1 (Spring 1997)
| Author(s) | Title |
| E. Brazee J. Wilhelm |
Comment from Guest Editors |
| J. Erickson | Building a Community of Designers: Restructuring Learning Through Student Hypermedia Design |
| C. F. Toepfer, Jr. | Middle Level School Concerns and Rural School-To-Employment Issues: In Search of Better Ways |
| R. Harrington | New Standards for Teaching Middle School Science: Now That We Have Them, What Do We Do? |
| L. R. Nelson F. D. Drake |
Enhancing Reflective Practice Through Alternative Assessment |
| B. G. Hicks | Meeting National Science Standards in an Integrative Curriculum: Classroom Examples from a Rural Middle Level Program |
| D. Hough T. Sills-Briegel |
Student Achievement and Middle Level Programs, Policies and Practices in Rural America: The Case of Community-Based Versus Consolidated Organizations |
| D. L. Prater A. B. Bermudez E. Owens |
Examining Parental Involvement in Rural, Urban, and Suburban Schools |
Volume 12, No. 3 (Winter 1996)
| Author(s) | Title |
| T. R. Sizer | Dreams, Interests, Aspirations |
| R. J. Quaglia C. D. Cobb |
Toward a Theory of Student Aspirations |
| J. Ley S. Nelson S. Beltyukova |
Congruence of Aspirations of Rural Youth With Expectations Held by Parents and School Staff |
| J. J. D´Amico W. Matthes A. Sankar B. Merchant M. Zurita |
Young Voices from the Rural Midwest |
| C. B. Howley H. L. Harmon G. D. Leopold |
Rural Scholars or Bright Rednecks? Aspirations for a Sense of Place Among Rural Youth in Appalachia |
| J. A. Plucker | Construct Validity Evidence for the Student Aspirations Survey |
| E. I. Kampits | Rural Partnerships in New England: Learning from Kids |
| H. J. Walberg R. Greenberg |
Youth Realities and Aspirations |
Volume 12, No. 2 (Fall 1996)
| Author(s) | Title |
| T. Z. Keith P. B. Keith K. J. Quirk E. Cohen-Rosenthal B. Franzese |
Effects of Parental Involvement on Achievement for Students Who Attend School in Rural America |
| H. L. Harmon C. B. Howley J. R. Sanders |
Doctoral Research in Rural Education and the Rural R & D Menu |
| J. W. George | Action Research for Quality Development in Rural Education in Scotland |
| A. M. Atkinson | Rural Mothers' Evaluation of the Strong and Weak Points of Child Care |
| T. Coladarci C. D. Cobb |
Extracurricular Participation, School Size, and Achievement and Self-Esteem among High School Students: A National Look |
| M. K. Porter | Moving Mountains: Reform, Resistance, and Resiliency in an Appalachian Kentucky High School |
| Y. L. Breen | Baring Our Soles |
| E. Hampsten | Book Review: Call School: Rural Education in the Midwest to 1918 (by Paul Theobald) |
Volume 12, No. 1 (Spring 1996)
| Author(s) | Title |
| E. Hatton | Corporate Managerialism in a Rural Setting: A Contextualised Case Study |
| D. W. Brown R. E. Carr C. M. Perry W. G. McIntire |
Principals' Perceptions of Community and Staff Involvement in Shared Decision Making |
| C. Howley | Compounding Disadvantage: The Effects of School and district Size on Student Achievement in West Virginia |
| K. E. Weiss V. I. Correa |
Challenges and Strategies for Early Childhood Special Education Services in Florida's Rural Schools: A DELPHI Study |
| C. Howley P. Theobald |
Book Review: The Life and Death of a Rural American High School: Farewell Little Kanawha (by A. DeYoung) |
Volume 11, No. 3 (Winter 1995)
Volume 11, No. 2 (Fall 1995)
Volume 11, No. 1 (Spring 1995)
| Author(s) | Title |
| J. M. Hektner | When Moving Up Implies Moving Out: Rural Adolescent Conflict in the Transition to Adulthood |
| P. J. Kannapel B. D. Moore P. Coe L. Aagaard |
Six Heads Are Better Than One? School-Based Decision Making in Rural Kentucky |
| A. J. DeYoung C. Howley P. Theobald |
The Cultural Contradictions of Middle Schooling for Rural Community Survival |
| D. A. Seltzer O. T. Himley |
A Model for Professional Development and School Improvement in Rural Schools |
| D. Godden | Beyond the Conventional Wisdom: A Reply to Sher & Sher (1994) |
| I. Searston | Beyond the Conventional Wisdom: A Reply to Sher & Sher (1994) |
| J. P. Sher | A Rejoinder to Godden (1995) and Searston (1995) |
| T. Coladarci (Ed.) | Conference Report: Issues Affecting Rural Communities, July 10-15, 1994 - Townsville, Australia |
Volume 10, No. 3 (Winter 1994)
Volume 10, No. 2 (Fall 1994)
| Author(s) | Title |
| A. Smithmier | Construction a Culture of Community: The Contributions of Rural Youth |
| Y. Sun D. Hobbs W. Elder Y. Li |
Multi-level Analyses of Television Viewing Among High School Students: A Contrast Between Nonmetropolitan Rural and Other Communities |
| A. Deay J. F. Saab |
Student-Centered Learning Communities: Teachers' Perspectives |
| N. G. Stevens G. L. Peltier |
A Review of Research on Small-School Student Participation in Extracurricular Activities |
| M. Anderson | A Literary Collage of Rural Life |
| B. O. Barker R. F. Hall |
Distance Education in Rural Schools: Technologies and Practice |
| J. Elliott | Book Review: Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, and Survival in Rural America (by Janet M. Fitchen) |
| P. Theobald | Book Review: A Social History of the English Countryside (by G. E. Mingay) |
Volume 10, No. 1 (Spring 1994)
| Author(s) | Title |
| J. P. Sher K. R. Sher |
Beyond the Conventional Wisdom: Rural Development as if Australia's Rural People and Communities Really Mattered |
| D. McSwan | The Rural Education Research and Development Centre |
| A. H. Higgins | A Background to Rural Education Schooling in Australia |
| P. Share G. Lawrence C. Boylin |
Educational Policy and the Australian Rural Economy |
| I. W. Gibson | Policy, Practice, and Need in the Professional Preparation of Teachers for Rural Teaching |
| K. Stevens | Australian Developments in Distance Education and Their Implications for Rural Schools |
Volume 9, No. 3 (Winter 1993)
Volume 9, No. 2 (Fall 1993)
| Author(s) | Title |
| M. P. Manke | The Rural Teacher in the Early 1900s: Sentimental Image and Hard Reality |
| E. J. Haller D. H. Monk L. T. Tien |
Small Schools and Higher-Order Thinking Skills |
| C. B. Howley | A Territorial Imperative: The Authority of the State to Reorganize Public Schools and Districts |
| B. A. Miller | Rural Distress and Survival: The School and the Importance of "Community" |
| S. C. Deller N. Walzer |
The Effects of an Aging Rural Population on the Financing of Rural Public Education |
| P. M. Nachtigal | Book Review: Rural Policies for the 1990s (Cornelia B. Flora and James A. Christianson, Eds.) |
| P. Theobald | Book Review: Community and the Politics of Place (by Daniel Kemmis) |
| D. Hobbs | Book Review: Small Districts, Big Problems: Making Schools Everybody's House (by Richard A. Schmuck and Patricia A. Schmuck) |
| Y. L. Breen | Thinking Locally, Acting Globally |
Volume 9, No. 1 (Spring 1993)
| Author(s) | Title |
| R. Ruopp M. Pfister B. Drayton S. Gal |
Supporting Teachers with Telecommunication: The LabNetwork |
| G. M. Walker | A Community of Learning |
| T. Thompson | Ready for a Change |
| S. Rhoades | Anatomy of a Small Failure |
| J. Cadigan | Report from Alaska |
| N. Anderson | Science-Related Telecommunication |
| S. Gal | Teachers and Teaching |
| R. Ruopp | Students and Learning |
| W. Spitzer | Environmental Barriers to Networking |
| R. Ruopp | A Concluding Reflection |
Volume 8, No. 3 (Fall 1992)
Volume 8, No. 2 (Summer 1992)
Volume 8, No. 1 (Winter 1992)
| Author(s) | Title |
| E. R. Stephens | The Condition of the Diverse Regions of Rural America |
| G. R. Bass D. Verstegen |
Informing Policymakers About the Impact of State Funding Formula Components on Rural Schools |
| J. Maddaus D. A. Mirochnik |
Town Tuitioning in Maine: Parental Choice of Secondary Schools in Rural Communities |
| R. M. Kendall | Evaluating the Benefits of a Computer Based Telecommunication Network: Telementoring and Teletraining for Educators in Rural Areas |
| V. E. Garland | Funding Inequities in New Hampshire School Districts: Political Realities and Public Attitudes |
| J. A. Gamradt P. G. Avery |
Country Kids, City Kids: Community Context and Geopolitical Identity |
| M. H. Smith L. J. Beaulieu G. D. Israel |
Effects of Human Capital and Social Capital on Dropping Out of High School in the South |
| D. W. Halgren H. F. Clarizio |
Rural Special Education Placements: Stability and Change |
Volume 7, No. 3 (Summer 1991)
| Author(s) | Title |
| A. J. DeYoung P. Theobald |
Community Schools in The National Context: The Social and Cultural Impact of Educational Reform Movements on American Rural Schools |
| S. Stringfield C. Teddlie |
School, Classroom, and Student Level Indicators of Rural School Effectiveness |
| C. H. Sederberg | A Programmatic Viability Model for Planning Rural School District Organizations |
| N. D. Theobald | A Persistent Challenge: Staffing Special Education Programs in Rural Schools |
| M. L. Grady M. T. Bryant |
School Board Presidents Describe Critical Incidents with Superintendents |
| R. H. Decker A. P. Talbot |
The Shared Superintendency |
Volume 7, No. 2 (Winter 1991)
| Author(s) | Title |
| B. A. Miller | A Review of the Qualitative Research on Multigrade Instruction |
| J. S. Streifel G. Foldesy D. M. Holman |
The Financial Effects of Consolidation |
| P. G. Theobald | Country Lifers Reconsidered: Educational Reform for Rural America |
| J. D. McCracken J. D. T. Barcinas |
Differences Between Rural and Urban Schools, Student Characteristics, and Student Aspirations in Ohio |
| P. A. Sundet M. W. Galbraith |
Adult Education as a Response to the Rural Crisis: Factors Governing Utility and Participation |
| A. Blum | The Farm Apprenticeship Scheme in Australia: How Different Groups Look at it |
| S. E. Easton | Confront |