A Symposium on Rural Education:
Research and Policy Issues

June 25, 2003
Salisbury, Maryland

Proceedings

Contents

• Memorandum to the Delmarva Education Foundation Board of Directors
• Summary I (Overview of the Symposium)
• Discussion Session Notes, Professional Educators
• Discussion Session Notes, Community Stakeholders
• Presentation by Michael Arnold, Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
• Presentation by Robert Gibbs, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • Education and the Workforce: Delmarva in the Rural-Urban Context (PowerPoint file)
• Presentation by Nancy Jennings, Bowdoin College
• Summary II (Afternoon Plenary Discussion)
• Abstract of Evaluation Responses
• Evaluation Response Tabulation
• Symposium Program
• Participant List
• Speaker Biographies
• Appendix (Symposium Handouts)
  • Map of DEF’s region
  • Some things DEF has learned about our region
  • A history of education on the Lower Delmarva Peninsula
  • "Scientific Research"
  • Discussion instructions
  • Annotated list of rural education websites (“a webliography”)
• Acknowledgements
• Back Matter
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