An Overview of ARSI: The Genesis, the Contextual Landscape, and the Model that Evolved

Institution	Inverness Research Associates
Titel	An Overview of ARSI: The Genesis, the Contextual Landscape, and the Model that Evolved
Quelle	(2006), (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Federal Programs; Rural Areas; Counties; Rural Schools; Science Education; Science Instruction; Mathematics Education; Mathematics Instruction; Technology Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Postsecondary Education; Educational Change; Educational History; Educational Policy; Program Development; Program Implementation; Program Effectiveness; Models; Economically Disadvantaged; Educational Improvement; Barriers; Leadership; Professional Development; Educational Resources; Regional Characteristics; Community Involvement; Educational Technology; Kentucky; North Carolina; Ohio; Tennessee; Virginia; West Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Rural areas; School; Schools; Schule; Schulen; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Mathematische Bildung; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Technisch-naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Bildungsreform; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Programmplanung; Analogiemodell; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Führung; Führungsposition; Bildungsmittel; Regionaler Faktor; Unterrichtsmedien
Abstract	In the 1990s, the nation's educational focus turned to troubled schools in the nation's poorest cities. Under the leadership of Luther Williams, then Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Urban Systemic Initiative was created to improve the teaching and learning of science and mathematics. Recognizing that high-needs schools were equally as pressing a problem in rural America as in urban areas, Wimberly Royster, an emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of Kentucky and a long-time advocate for math education, began a campaign to persuade NSF to expand its focus on mathematics and science education reform to include rural areas. In the summer of 1995, with a grant of $10 million dollars, and a charge "to stimulate sustainable systemic improvements in science, mathematics and technology education for K-14 students in 66 eligible counties using the school and its surrounding community as the focus of its effort," the Appalachian Rural Systemic Initiative (ARSI) began. This paper provides an overview of the genesis and evolution of ARSI. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10