Making Dollars by Making Sense: Linking Rural Education and Development in Appalachia.

Autor/in	Sher, Jonathan P.
Titel	Making Dollars by Making Sense: Linking Rural Education and Development in Appalachia.
Quelle	(1987), (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Economic Development; Educational Change; Educational Demand; Educational Improvement; Educational Innovation; Elementary Secondary Education; Rural Development; Rural Economics; Rural Education; Rural Environment; Rural Schools; School Holding Power + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Bildungsreform; Bildungsanforderung; Bildungsnachfrage; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Rural environment; Development; Ländliches Milieu; Entwicklung; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen
Abstract	The idea that education is connected to economic development and that the economy can be strengthened by strengthening education has become a cornerstone of the 1980s educational reform movement. The basic idea linking education and the economy is not new. Americans have invested in education with the expectation that it would yield substantial financial returns, for a well-prepared workforce is more productive and innovative than an undereducated workforce. The current educational emphasis of raising academic standards to produce better graduates equipped to make more productive contributions to the economy will be useful to students able to cope successfully with expanded demands; however there is a downside. Raising standards without improving the attractiveness or holding power of schools is likely to increase the dropout rate. A policy designed to promote economic growth may exacerbate current economic problems in specific places like Appalachia. Having to complete a greater number of harder courses will produce more dropouts, making economic matters worse. In Appalachia, the existing connection between education and development seems negative. Taught to be passive and deferential, Appalachian youth have been treated as not especially bright, and they have been trained not to expect bright futures. Another negative connection between education and economic development in Appalachia is the inadequate financial support for schools through low property taxes. Schools are an undervalued resource for Appalachian development, but in fact they have great potential for community revitalization. Programs which make a positive, appropriate linkage between rural education and rural development are needed. (ALL)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC