Monday, November 21, 2005
"Must Reads" in Rural Education
Cubberley, E. (1922). Rural life and education: A study of the rural-school problem as a phase of the rural-life problem. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
DeYoung, Alan. (1995). The Life and Death of a Rural American High School: Farewell Little Kanawha. New York: Garland Publishing.
Duncan, Cynthia M. (1999). Worlds Apart: Why Poverty Persist in Rural America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Friedman Thomas L. (2005). The world if flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Girouz.
Merz, C., & Furman, G. C. (1997). Community and schools: Promise and paradox. New York: Teachers College Press.
Nachtigal, Paul. (1982). Rural Education: In Search of A Better Way. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Peshkin, Alan. (1978). Growing up American: Schooling and the survival of community. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Scott, James C. (1998). Seeing Like a State : How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Sher, Jonathon P. (1977). Education in Rural America: A Reassessment of Conventional Wisdom. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
Starratt, R. J. (2002). Community as curriculum. In K. Leithwood & P. Hallinger (Eds.) Second international handbook of educational leadership and administration (pp. 321-48). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Theobald, Paul. (1997). Teaching the commons. Boulder, Colorado: Westview.
Tyack, D. B. (1972). The tribe and the common school: Community control in rural education. American Quarterly, 24(1), 3-19.
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