Journal of Research in Rural Education

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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

Place-Based Education in the Global Age: Local Diversity
(Book Review)
J. Hayes-Conroy
The Pennsylvania State University

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Volume 23 (2008)

Volume 23 (2008, fourth 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

Volume 22 (2007)

Volume 22 (2007, fourth online volume)

Author(s)	Title
No. 1 Z. Barley A. Beesley	Rural School Success: What Can We Learn?
No. 2 A. Howley W. Larson S. Andrianaivo M. Rhodes M. Howley	Standards-based reform of mathematics education in rural high schools
No. 3 T. Coladarci	Improving the Yield of Rural Education Research: An Editor's Swan Song
No. 4 P. Theobald	(Book Review) Learning to Leave: The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community (by Michael Corbett)
No. 5 R. Yang R. Fetsch	The self-esteem of rural children
No. 6 E. Seaton	Caring for Rural Girls in the Classroom
No. 7 M.L. Aylward	Discourses of cultural relevance in Nunavut schooling
No. 8 S.A. Agbo	Addressing school-community relations in a cross-cultural context: A collaborative action to bridge the gap between First Nations and the school
No. 9 K. Edgeworth J. Eiseman	Going Bush: International Student Perspectives on Living andStudying at an Australian Rural University Campus
No. 10 L.V. Hedges E. C. Hedberg	Intraclass Correlations for Planning Group Randomized Experiments in Rural Education

Volume 21 (2006)

Volume 21 (2006, third online volume)

Author(s)	Title
No. 1 T. Browne-Ferrigno L. W. Allen	Preparing principal for high-need rural schools: A central office perspective about collaborative efforts to transform school leadership
No. 2 J. Xu L. Corno	Gender, family help, and homework management reported by rural middle school students
No. 3 T. Farmer M. Irvin J. Thompson B. Hutchins M. Leung	School Adjustment and the Academic Success of Rural African American Early Adolescents in the Deep South
No. 4 J. Benseman	Moving Towards Lifelong Learning in Rural New Zealand: A Study of Two Towns
No. 5 K.L. Clopton K. Knesting	Rural school psychology: Re-opening the discussion
No. 6 D.M. Dees	"How Do I Deal with These New Ideas?": The Psychological Acculturation of Rural Students
No. 7 E. Prins	Individual Roles and Approaches to Public Engagement in a Community-University Partnership in a Rural California Town
No. 8 K. Schaft T. Alter J. Bridger	Bringing the community along: A case study of a school district's information technology rural development initiative
No. 9 D. Gruenewald	Resistance, reinhabitation, and regime change
No. 10 T.W. Farmer K. Dadisman S.J. Latendresse J. Thompson M.J. Irvin L. Zhang	Educating out and giving back: Adults' conceptions of successful outcomes of African American high school students fromimpoverished rural communities
No. 11 D. Gruenewald T. Salsbury	Book Review: Reclaiming the Local in Language Policy and Practice (A. Suresh Canagarajah, Ed.)
No. 12 P. Theobald R. Rochon	Enclosure Then and Now: Rural Schools and Communities in the Wake of Market-Driven Agriculture
No. 13 K. Budge	Rural Leaders, Rural Places: Problem, Privilege, and Possibility

Volume 20 (2005)

Volume 20 (2005, second online volume)

Author(s)	Title
No. 1 T. M. Freeman L. H. Anderman	Changes in Mastery Goals in Urban and Rural Middle School Students
No. 2 W. Jennings	Book Review: Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing by Robert E. Brooke (Ed.)
No. 3 M. L. Arnold	Commentary: Rural Education: A New Perspective is Needed at the U. S. Department of Education
No. 4 S. A. Swidler	Conversation and Control: Emergent Progressive Pedagogy in the Last of Nebraska's One-Teacher Schools
No. 5 J. H. Williams	Cross-National Variations in Rural Mathematics Achievement: A Descriptive Overview
No. 6 M. L. Arnold J. H. Newman B. B. Gaddy C. B. Dean	A Look at the Condition of Rural Education Research: Setting a Direction for Future Research
No. 7 C. B. Howley A. A. Howley D. S. Huber	Prescriptions for Rural Mathematics Instruction: Analysis of the Rhetorical Literature
No. 8 W. S. Bush	Improving Research on Mathematics Learning and Teaching in Rural Contexts
No. 9 A. Howley M. Carnes A. Eldridge D. Huber L. Lado R. Kotler M. Turner	The Poor Little Rich District: The Effects of Suburbanization on a Rural School and Community
No. 10 K. J. Wenger J. Dinsmore	Preparing Rural Preservice Teachers for Diversity
No. 11 A. R. Wiley T. Bogg M. R. Ho	The Influence of Parental Socialization Factors on Family Farming Plans of Pre-Adolsecent Children: An Exploratory Analysis
No. 12 L.J. Beaulieu R.M. Gibbs	A special collection: Student performance and work-based learning
No. 13 S.J. Goetz	Random variation in student performance by class size: Implications of NCLB in rural Pennsylvania
No. 14 F.D. Beck G.W. Shoffstall	How do rural schools fare under a high-stakes testing regime?
No. 15 K.A. Schafft	The incidence and impacts of student transiency in upstate New York's rural school districts
No. 16 G.P. Green	Work-based learning in rural America: Employer participation in school-to-work programs and apprenticeships
No. 17 C. Mulryan-Kyne	The grouping practices of teachers in small two-teacher primary schools in the Republic of Ireland
No. 18 C. Howley P. Theobald A. Howley	Commentary: What Rural Education Research is of Most Worth? A Reply to Arnold, Newman, Gaddy, and Dean
No. 19 L. Cicchinelli C. Dean	Commentary: It's All About the Quality of Advice, Guidance, and Research for Rural Educators: A Rejoinder to Howley, Theobald, and Howley
No. 20 M. Arnold	Commentary: Jump the Shark: A Rejoinder to Howley, Theobald, and Howley
No. 21 C. Howley	Book Review: Naturally Small: Teaching and Learning in the Last One-Teacher Schools (by Stephen A. Swidler)

Volume 19 (2004)

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 (2003)

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
E. Beeson M. Strange	Why Rural Matters 2003: The Continuing Need For Every State to Take Action on Rural Education
E. B. Reeves	Disentangling the Effects of Nonmetro Location and Student Poverty on School Performance/Improvement: Implications for Equitable Excellence in Kentucky Public Schools
J. Edmondson P. Shannon	Reading First Initiative in Rural Pennsylvania Schools
M. J. Opuda	NCLB-A Threat or a Challenge to Public Education? A Reply to Edmondson and Shannon
M. Arnold	Taking the Road Less Traveled: A Reply to Edmondson and Shannon
P. Shannon J. Edmondson	A Rejoinder to Opuda and Arnold
C. B. Howley	Mathematics Education in Rural Communities: An Essay on the Parameters of Respectful Research
H. L. Harmon S. A. Henderson W. C. Royster	A Research Agenda for Improving Science and Mathematics Education in Rural Schools
S. A. Swidler	Book Review: High Stakes: Children, Testing, and Failure in American Schools (by Dale D. Johnson and Bonnie Johnson)
J. S. Beaudry	Book Review: High Stakes: Children, Testing, and Failure in American Schools (by Dale D. Johnson and Bonnie Johnson)

Volume 17 (2001-2002)

Volume 17, No. 3 (Winter 2002)

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)

Volume 16 (2000)

Volume 16, No. 3 (Winter 2000)

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 (1999)

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 (1998)

Volume 14, No. 3 (Winter 1998)

Author(s)	Title
T. Wotherspoon	Education, Place, and the Sustainability of Rural Communities in Saskatchewan
J. Dayton	Rural School Funding Inequities: An Analysis of Legal, Political, and Fiscal Issues
B. J. Franklin C. H. Glascock	The Relationship Between Grade Configuration and Student Performance in Rural Schools
T. R. Berkeley	Rural Perspectives on Special Education in Transition: Public Law 105-17, Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997
I. Williams R. Thorpe	Small Primary Schools in Rural Wales: Frameworks of Collaboration
B. O. Brent	Expanding Nonresidential Property Tax Bases for School Finance in New York State: Implications for Student Equity
R. E. Townsend	Reply to Brent (1998)
B. O. Brent	Expanding the Knowledge Base: A Rejoinder to Townsend (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 (1997)

Volume 13, No. 3 (Winter 1997)

Author(s)	Title
D. L. Bainer	A Comparison of Four Models of Group Efforts and Their Implications for Establishing Educational Partnerships
M. A. Grey	Secondary Labor in the Meatpacking Industry: Demographic Change and Student Mobility in Rural Iowa Schools
B. J. Fox M. Wright	Exploring the Use of Rural Community Members In Support of First Grade Readers
D. H. Purdy	An Economical, Thorough, and Efficient School System: The West Virginia School Building Authority "Economy of Scale" Numbers
R. Bhandari F. J. Smith	Rural Women in India: Assessment of Educational Constraints and the Need for New Educational Approaches

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 (1996)

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 (1995)

Volume 11, No. 3 (Winter 1995)

Author(s)	Title
M. K. Porter	The Bauer County Fair: Community Celebration as Context for Youth Experiences of Learning and Belonging
M. P. Manke	"Oh, It Was Different Then!" Case Stories f Unsought Change in the Lives of Three Retired Elementary School Teachers
B. A. Miller	The Role of Rural Schools in Community Development: Policy Issues and Implications
M. Galton L. Hargreaves	Clustering: A Survival Mechanism for Rural Schools in the United Kingdom
K. Stevens	Vocational Choice for Senior High School Students in Rural Australian Communities
A. J. DeYoung	Bridging Multiple Worlds: The School Superintendent as Change Agent in a Rural and Poor School District

Volume 11, No. 2 (Fall 1995)

Author(s)	Title
J. Maddaus S. F. Marion	Do Standardized Test Scores Influence Parental Choice of High School?
K. Esterman D. Hedlund	Comparing Rural Adolescents from Farm and Nonfarm Families
J. W. Rojewski R. C. Wicklein J. W. Schell	Effects of Gender and Academic-Risk Behavior on the Career Maturity of Rural Youth
P. F. Galvin	The Physical Structure of Regional Educational Service Agencies: Implications for Service and Equity Goals
B. A. Beach	What Do We Know About Rural Child Care? An Overview of Issues
L. Cuban	Book Review: The Life and Death of a Rural American High School: Farewell Little Kanawha (by Alan DeYoung)
C. E. Mertens	Book Review: Integrating Education, Health, and Social Services in Rural Communities: Service Integration Through the Rural Prism (by R. D. Bhaerman)
J. Wiles	Logic Gone Wrong: A Reply to DeYoung, Howley & Theobald (1995)
J. Lipsitz	Argument Misguided and Divisive: A Reply to DeYoung, Howley & Theobald (1995)
A. J. DeYoung C. Howley P. Theobald	Revisiting and Extending the Argument: A Rejoinder to Wiles and Lipsitz

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 (1994)

Volume 10, No. 3 (Winter 1994)

Author(s)	Title
J. R. Sanders	Introduction: Implications of Recent Changes in Nonmetropolitan America
D. A. McGranahan	Rural America in the Global Economy: Socioeconomic Trends
D. Hobbs	Demographic Trends in Nonmetropolitan America
P. M. Nachtigal	Political Trends Affecting Nonmetropolitan America
E. R. Stephens	Recent Education Trends and Their Hypothesized Impact on Rural Districts
R. D. Bhaerman	Implications for Systemic Education-and Societal-Reform: A Discussion of McGranahan, Hobbs, Nachtigal, and Stephens
S. Nelson	Implications of Recent Changes in Nonmetropolitan America: A Discussion of McGranahan, Hobbs, Nachtigal, and Stephens

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 (1993)

Volume 9, No. 3 (Winter 1993)

Author(s)	Title
T. Schram	Laotian Refugees in a Small-Town School: Contexts and Encounters
G. Huang C. Howley	Mitigating Disadvantage: Effects of Small-Scale Schooling on Student Achievement in Alaska
D. Hedlund	Listening to Rural Adolescents: Views on the Rural Community and the Importance of Adult Interactions
V. J. Storey	Factors, Issues, and Problems in the Recruitment and Retention of Teachers for Rural Schools
E. J. Haller S. J. Virkler	Another Look at Rural-Nonrural Differences in Students' Educational Aspirations
Y. Dror	The New Rural School in Upper Galilee (Eretz Israel) at the Beginning of the 20th Century
J. D. Spears	Book Review: Rural Education: Issues and Practices (Alan J. DeYoung, Ed.)

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 (1992)

Volume 8, No. 3 (Fall 1992)

Author(s)	Title
J. D. Stern	Introduction
E. R. Stephens	Mapping the Research Task for the Construction of a Federal System for Classifying the Nation's Rural School Districts
R. J. Reeder	An Analysis of Selected Economic, Social, and Fiscal Indicators for Nonmetropolitan School Classification Schemes
W. L. Elder	The Use of Census Geography and County Typologies in the Construction of Classification Systems for Rural Schools and Districts
P. M. Nachtigal	Toward the Construction of a Federal Policy-Impact Code for Classifying the Nation's Rural School Districts: A Response to Stephens, Reeder, and Elder
R. D. Bhaerman	More Questions Than Answers: A Response to Stephens, Reeder, And Elder

Volume 8, No. 2 (Summer 1992)

Author(s)	Title
W. S. Carlsen D. H. Monk	Differences Between Rural and Nonrural Secondary Science Teachers: Evidence From the Longitudinal Study of American Youth
J. G. Ward F. J. Rink	Analysis of Local Stakeholder Opposition to School District Consolidation: An Application of Interpretive Theory to Public Policy Making
J. C. Hurley	The Organizational Socialization of Rural High School Principals: Teacher Influences
E. R. Stephens	Classifying Extraordinary State Policy Strategies for Assisting Rural School Districts
V. J. Storey	Quest for Educational Equality: The Case of a Rural Pre-Service Teacher Education Program
D. F. Wihry T. Coladarci C. Meadow	Grade Span and Eighth-Grade Academic Achievement: Evidence From a Predominantly Rural State

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 (1990-1991)

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	Confronting Educational Barriers to Rural Adults: A 13-State Survey
R. N. Bickel S. R. Banks L. Spatig