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Rural Gifted Education: A Comprehensive Review; Journal of Rducation for the Gifted, in press: summer, 2009.

Dollars & Sense Two: Lessons from Good, Cost-Effective Small Schools; Lawrence, B.K., et al., KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Cincinnati, OH, 2005  (www.goodsmallschools.org).

The Hermit Crab Solution: Creative Alternatives for Improving Rural School Facilities & Keeping Them Close to Home, AEL, Charleston, West Virginia. 2004
http://www.ael.org/page.htm?&id=805&pd=res8721

Save a Penny, Lose a School: the real cost of deferred maintenance, the Rural School and Community Trust, Washington, DC, in press.

Dollars and Sense: The Cost-Effectiveness of Small Schools, Lawrence, Barbara Kent et al., KnowledgeWorks, Concordia, Inc. and The Rural School and Community Trust, Cincinnati, Ohio and Washington DC.
http://www.kwfdn.org/resource_library/_resources/dollars_sense.pdf

Lowering the Overhead by Raising the Roof and other strategies for small schools, The Rural School and Community Trust, Washington, DC, 2002.
http://www.ruraledu.org/keep_learning.cfm?record_no=574

Effect of State Policy Structures on Facilities Planning and Construction in Rural Districts, Appalachian Educational Laboratory, ERIC/CRESS, Digest ED-RC-01-8, December, 2001.

Praxis to Practice: Putting Qualitative Methods To Work for Rural Education, paper presented at the Annual Qualitative Research in Rural Education Conference, Morganstown, WV, May 20-21, 1999. ED436326
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED436326.htm

Customer or Client: Who is Who in Education, Maine Journal of Education, Winter 1999, Brunswick, Maine.

The Importance of Sustainability for Rural Schools, meeting of the National Rural Education Association, “ October 14 – 17, Buffalo, NY, 1998. ED 425030
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED425030.htm

Culture: The Fulcrum of Change, 
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED441621.htm

There’s Many a Slip Between the Cup and the Lip, In: The Many Faces of Rural Education. Proceedings of the Annual NREA Convention (89th, Tucson, AZ, September 24-27, 1997); see RC 021 239.
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED413153.htm

Working Memory: The Influence of Culture on Aspirations, Dissertation, Boston University, 1998. Dissertation of the Year, 1998, National Rural Education Association.
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED430765.htm

Working Memory: The Influence of Culture on Education, A Case Study of Tremont, Maine, a paper presented at the National Rural Education Association Meeting, San Antonio, October 13, 1996. ED 407193
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED407193.htm

Working Memory: An Ethnographic Case Study, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Rural Education Association (San Antonio, TX, October 13, 1996).
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED407193.htm

Sketches of Maine, Spring, 1995, presented in part at The South End Open Studios, Writers Workshop, September, 22, 1996

'What the Red Squirrel is to the Gray’: The Importance of Culture in the Composition of School Boards on Mount Desert Island, Maine, Paper presented at the National Rural Education Association meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 4, 1995. ED 389 502
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED389502.htm

Hoosiers, Yankees and Mountaineers, Phi Delta Kappan, November, 1995 with Alan J. DeYoung, pp. 104-112. EJ 374632
http://ericae.net/ericdc/EJ513377.htm

You Can’t Get There From Here: The Influence of Culture on the Aspirations of Maine Students, March, 1994
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED371912.htm

Beware the Gifted, Spring, 1994. ED 374 632
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED374632.htm

You Can Get There From Here: Involving the Community in Children’s Aspirations : A Proposal for Tremont Consolidated Grammar School, Tremont, Maine, April, 1994. ED 371912
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED371912.htm

Wind Tunnels: Themes in Maine Literature and Their Relevance to Schooling, Summer, 1994. ED 375 992.
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED375992.htm

Consolidation of Rural Schools: Mount Desert Island, Maine: A Case Study, 1993
http://ericae.net/ericdc/ED371911.htm

Land for Granted: The Effects of Acreage Policies on Rural Schools and Communities
http://www.ruraledu.org/newsroom/landforgranted.htm

Land for Granted: The Effects of Acreage Policies on Rural Schools and Communities, Rural School and Community Trust, December, 2003
http://www.ruraledu.org/docs/landforgranted.pdf

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