Rural education as rural development: Understanding the rural school–community well-being linkage in a 21st-century policy context

KA Schafft - Peabody Journal of Education, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the significant proportions of rural Americans, schools, and public school students
situated in the geographic peripheries of an increasingly urbanizing country, rural education …

Teacher shortages: A framework for understanding and predicting vacancies

DS Edwards, MA Kraft, A Christian… - … and Policy Analysis, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We develop a conceptual framework for understanding and predicting teacher shortages at
the state, region, district, and school levels. We then empirically examine how teacher …

Broadband access, district policy, and student opportunities for remote learning during COVID-19 school closures

SK Patrick, JA Grissom, SC Woods… - AERA …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
We conceptualize students' opportunities to learn remotely during the initial school closures
associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. We then examine variation in remote instruction …

Ignoring the experts: Networks and organizational learning in the public sector

MD Siciliano - Journal of Public Administration Research and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Although much of the research on learning in the public sector examines collaborative
arrangements and interorganizational networks, it often stresses the importance of individual …

Problems and strategies of allocating public service resources in rural areas in the context of county urbanization

M Pan, Y Huang, Y Qin, X Li, W Lang - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Imbalances in allocating public service resources are a universal problem worldwide,
especially in urban and rural areas. As a developing country with a significant imbalance …

Professional networks and street-level performance: How public school teachers' advice networks influence student performance

MD Siciliano - The American Review of Public …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Given the complexity of their work, street-level bureaucrats rely on their professional
networks to access implementation resources and information. Despite the acknowledged …

“If I ever leave, I have a list of people that are going with me:” Principals' understandings of and responses to place influences on teacher staffing in West Virginia

E McHenry-Sorber, MP Campbell… - Educational …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Purpose: Schools across the predominately rural state of West Virginia are experiencing
widespread teacher shortages, though recruitment and retention difficulties are unevenly …

Exploring teacher recruitment and retention

T Ovenden-Hope, R Passy - Contextual challenges from …, 2020 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The first section focuses on different perspectives of teacher recruitment and retention in
England, and includes a range of expert insights and research that offer novel contextual …

Small and Sparse: Defining Rural School Districts for K-12 Funding. Research Report.

E Gutierrez, F Terrones - Urban Institute, 2023 - ERIC
Across the United States, students attending rural school districts can face different
obstacles than their urban counterparts, particularly rural students from households living …

The EMI content lecturer as a street-level bureaucrat: discretionary actions and coping mechanisms in micro-level language policy-as-produced

A De Soete, S Slembrouck - Journal of Multilingual and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The field of English as a Medium-of-Instruction (EMI) research in tertiary education is
undergoing a context-specific turn, focusing attention on how the official medium of …