The Appalachian Rural Systemic Initiative: Improving Science and Mathematics Student Achievement in Economically Disadvantaged Rural Counties in Central Appalachia Through a School-Based, Teacher Partner Approach

Abstract

This article was written in response to Top-Down, Routinized Reform in Low-income, Rural Schools: NSF\u27s Appalachian Rural Systemic Initiative, by Robert Bickel, Terry Tomaskek, and Teresa Hardman Eagle which was published in the Education Policy Analysis Archives as Number 12 of Volume 8 on February 21, 2000