Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1: Historical and Social Contexts of Rural Education -- Chapter 1. Historical Scholarship in Nineteenth Century Rural Education -- Chapter 2. Adult Education and Rural America: An Analysis of Selected Topics and Sources -- Chapter 3. The Rural Education Dilemma as Part of the Rural Dilemma: Rural Education and Economics -- Part II: Rural Education in the Field: Sources for Practitioners -- Chapter 4. Identifying, Recruiting, Selecting, Inducting, and Supervising Rural Teachers -- Chapter 5. The Organization and Reorganization of Small Rural Schools -- Chapter 6. Technological Delivery Systems and Applications for K-12 Instruction in Rural Schools -- Chapter 7. Meeting the Needs of Special Student Populations in Rural Locales -- Chapter 8. Equality of Educational Opportunity in Rural America -- Chapter 9. Resources in Rural Education -- Part III: The Future of American Rural Schooling? -- Chapter 10. A Proposed Federal and State Policy Agenda for Rural Education in the Decade of the 1990s -- Chapter 11. Rural Grassroots School Organizations: Their Agendas for Education -- Chapter 12. Why Reform Doesn't Apply: Creating a New Story about Education in Rural America -- Index