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Dividing at an Early Age: The Hidden Digital Divide in Ohio Elementary Schools
Lawrence Wood; Aimee Howley
Learning, Media and Technology Vol. 37, No. 1 (2012) pp. 20–39
Computers are now a ubiquitous part of US elementary school education. With policy reports suggesting that inequities in information and communication technology (ICT) access across US schools are a thing of the past, investigating how such...
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The Internet and the Truth about Science: We Gave a Science War but Nobody Came
Aimee Howley; George Meadows
Education Policy Analysis Archives Vol. 6, No. 19 (1998)
Attempted to examine the process of conceptual-change teaching through an Internet discussion, part of a distance-education teacher-training course, involving approximately 40 teachers. The prior beliefs of these teachers about science and science...
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Receptivity to Telecommunications among K-12 Teachers in a Rural State: Results of a West Virginia Survey
Aimee A. Howley; Craig B. Howley
Rural Educator Vol. 17, No. 1 (1995) pp. 7–14
A survey of 262 teachers in predominantly rural West Virginia measured respondents' technological literacy and receptivity to telecommunications applications. The majority of respondents were familiar with computer applications, particularly...
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Receptivity to Telecommunications among K-12 Teachers in a Rural State: Results of a West Virginia Survey
Aimee A. Howley; Craig B. Howley
Annual Meeting of the National Rural Education Association 1994 (Oct 17, 1994)
Distance education is a way to provide needed instructional resources to rural schools, and the Internet and other telecommunications networks are the newest addition to the distance education toolkit. However, little is known about rural teachers'...
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Stretching to Survive: District Autonomy in an Age of Dwindling Resources
Aimee Howley; Marged Howley; Katie Hendrickson; Johnny Belcher; Craig Howley
Journal of Research in Rural Education Vol. 27, No. 3 (2012)
This case study focuses on a four-district collaborative that shared services for more than 15 years in an effort to retain rural schools and thereby to preserve community identity. With population losses in the four districts and suburbanization in ...
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Challenges Facing Rural Schools: Implications for Gifted Students
Aimee Howley; Megan Rhodes; Jimmie Beall
Journal for the Education of the Gifted Vol. 32, No. 4 (2009) pp. 515–536
In this paper, we discuss the implications for gifted students of challenges facing rural schools. We explore 4 challenges with particular relevance to rural schools: (a) declining population, (b) persistent poverty, (c) changing demographics, and ...
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Rural Elementary School Teachers' Technology Integration
Aimee Howley; Lawrence Wood; Brian Hough
Journal of Research in Rural Education Vol. 26, No. 9 (2011)
Based on survey responses from more than 500 third-grade teachers, this study addressed three research questions relating to technology integration and its impact in rural elementary schools. The first analyses compared rural with non-rural teachers,...