Abstract

The current efforts underway at the federal level to better understand the diversity in the public school universe must acknowledge the increasingly apparent differences in the nation's large rural-school component. The research task necessary to achieve this objective is formidable and includes addressing a large number of definitional, conceptual, methodological, and policy-application issues. Each of these four interrelated clusters of research issues is further broken down into a series of lead questions in order to facilitate the development of the proposed itinerary for mapping the research task required to construct a meaningful classification system.

How to Cite:

Stephens, E. R., (1992) “Mapping the Research Task for the Construction of a Federal System for Classifying the Nation's Rural School Districts”, Journal of Research in Rural Education 8(3), 3–28.

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