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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"School consolidation"”.
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The Role of Newspapers in Russell County School Consolidation
… a serious study of any kind made relative to the schools of Russell County. That, perhaps, is the main reason for a hodge-podge of records because no scholar evidently has had a reason for collecting them into a treatise that would give a running, accurate account of what took place here …
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Resistance to School Consolidation in a Rural Appalachian Community
School consolidation, which involves closing one or more schools and combining them into a single school, is a common phenomenon in rural Appalachian communities due to out-migration and lack of funding for public schools. When school consolidation occurs, the local school may be closed, or …
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A principal interest: leading for learning in high school consolidation
The growing body of research on school consolidation does not detail the role of the high school principal. This revelatory case study examined a principal in an Illinois high school during the first year of consolidation. Furthermore, this study is informed by two separate bodies of literature. …
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Impacts Of Transportation And Population Upon Western North Dakota School Consolidation
<p>Western North Dakota school district consolidations continue to be a topic of great local concern. This is apparent in the Hebron, Glen Ullin, and Richardton-Taylor school districts. A qualitative case study of these communities addressed the importance of four school district consolidation …
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Dynamics of Rural School Consolidation in the Arkansas Ozarks, 1900-1950
… the historical development and issues of rural school consolidation—an understudied yet important and community-changing aspect of rural American history—in the Arkansas Ozarks, primarily in the first half of the twentieth century. In a broader sense, it serves as a case study for the history of …
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An Analysis of State Policy Implementation on School Consolidation: Working From the Bottom Up
… Iowa's state policy on whole grade sharing and school consolidation. The study was designed to ascertain if the policies of the state of Iowa were effective in encouraging small rural school districts to whole grade share and follow up with school consolidation. Procedure: Four whole grade …
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Determining Transportation and Development Impacts of Consolidated Schools in West Virginia
School consolidation has become commonplace in the West Virginia, with a declining student population as West Virginia has lost population over the last several decades. Consolidated schools offer school districts the opportunity to provide greater offerings in terms of coursework and …
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Role of the Indiana township trustee in educational administration, 1895-1959
… managing the educational affairs of the public schools in rural Indiana from 1859 through 1959. The century time span started in 1859 when the state legislature enacted a law that reduced the number of trustees per township from three to one. The concluding year, 1959, the School Reorganization …
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A History of The Louisa Training School in Louisa County, Virginia, 1926-1953
… to document the history of the Louisa Training School. The study focused on the period from 1926, when the Louisa County School Board established the Louisa Training School as a county-owned and operated school, through 1953, when the division's school consolidation plan was implemented (Despot, …
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Jointly Operating a Merged Junior Academy: A Case Study of Interracial Cooperation in Seventh-day Adventist Education in North America
… v. Board of Education that rules segregated schools unconstitutional, the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America continues to operate segregated schools in close proximity, a practice rooted in a 1944 General Conference vote that allowed the establishment of separate regional …
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One-room schools and their role in the development of the Appalachian hills of West Virginia: 1863--1940s
One-room schools provided the educational settings for the majority of West Virginians until well into the twentieth century. The distribution of the population throughout the rural, rolling, and mountainous terrain resulted in the location of schools within walking distance for most students. The …
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Segregation, Transformation, and Urban Education: A History of Attaining Racial Equity in the Hickman Mills C-1 School District
… an analysis of the history of education and schooling in the greater Kansas City metropolitan community from 1902 to 2014; the political, social, and economic climate in the Hickman Mills C-1 School District and community; and the history of the development and implementation of the Hickman …
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Factors Perceived by Legislators, School Board Presidents, and Superintendents that may Inhibit or Promote School District Consolidation Considerations in South Dakota
… either inhibiting or promoting influence on school consolidation considerations in South Dakota public school districts. In addition, the study sought to identify clusters of factors by direction, intensity, and nature as perceived by the three groups surveyed.</p> <p>The survey population …
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The Consolidation of Alleghany County and Covington City Public Schools: A Case Study
… of which can result in a reduction of school-aged children within certain towns and regions. Hence, communities facing such challenges must consider ways to economize so that they can provide as many essential services as possible, and of a quality that best serves the local population. …
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Community Impact of School Closure: Implications for Access to Socially Valued Resources and Services in an Urban Community
… in Central Bay, California, as Central Bay High School faces the prospect of consolidation or closure. Drawing on in-depth, semi-structured interviews and document analysis, the study examines how the potential loss of a longstanding educational institution affects community access to socially …
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Two Small Rural Schools Under Siege: An Oral History 1969-2012
… community of Portal, Georgia, its two local schools, and its residents’ successful fight to keep these community schools. Guided by the theoretical framework of critical theory and the works of critical researchers, namely Paulo Freire (1998), Michael Apple (2006), Jean Anyon (2005), and …
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Marvin S. Pittman: A Historical Inquiry of His Life, Legacy and Leadership
… plan for teacher training, and theories for the consolidation of schools. Pittman understood that education was the tool needed to give power back to the people, and to enable them to be productive citizens. Education was Pittman's tool to bring the poor farm boy from the cotton fields into the …