This resource (159 page PDF) offers 19 case studies of innovative practices in rural schools. The topic is especially interesting to me because my own education took place in a small rural school. As the report notes, "two major and interconnected issues emerge when considering small and rural schools: the efficiency problem, and the inequality of the provision of education." They often deal with lower socio-economic status students. Or students who need to work on the farm. What the case studies have in common is that they are each embedded in their own context; universal prescriptions don't apply here. In one case, the school is like a 'school on wheels' because everybody drives to it; in another, the the school takes advantage of a natural setting to spend as much time outdoors as possible. Some suffer from staff turnover, some are working to create collaboration networks with similar schools around them. There's an executive summary if you prefer.
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