One copy provided for each district:

• Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking Is Not the Answer  by Jim Collins,  November 2005

  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780977326402&itm=3

• An Overview of Sixteen Trends . . . Their Profound Impact on Our Future  by Gary Marx, 2006

  http://www.ers.org/CATALOG/description.phtml?II=WS-0633

• Redesigning Schools for Success - Implementing Small Learning Communities and Teacher Collaboration

  by Charles E. Ruebling with Nancy A. Clarke, Frances A. Kayona, and Shirley B. Stow, 2007

  http://www.rueblinggroup.com/csr/p.html

• Accountability for Learning: How Teachers and School Leaders Can Take Charge  by Douglas B. Reeves, January 2004

  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780871208330&itm=3

• The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life

  by Richard Florida,  December 2003

  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780465024773&itm=1

• Creating Small Schools: A Handbook for Raising Equity and Achievement

  by Dan French, Mary Atkinson, Mary Atkinson, and Leah Rugen,  May 2007

  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781412941785&itm=2

• School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action

  by Joyce Epstein, Karen C. Salinas, Beth Simon, Lucretia Coates, Mavis G. Sanders,  June 2002

  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780761976660&itm=1

• Getting Excited About Data: Combining People, Passion, and Proof to Maximize Student Achievement

  by Edie L. Holcomb, February 2004

  http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780761939597&itm=1

• Minnesota Rural Issues Journal Volume 1, Issue 2, September 2006

  “Educating Rural Minnesota’s Children”   (pdf- click here)

Recommended in Addition to the Above:

• Beyond the Bake Sale:  The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships

  by Anne T. Hendersn, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, and Don Davies, 2007

  http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1296

Web Sites:

• Journal of Research in Rural Education (National Rural Education Association)

  http://www.umaine.edu/jrre/

• National Center for Education Statistics, Resources for Rural Schools (US Department of Education)

  http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ruraled/

• National Rural Education Association

http://www.nrea.net/

• Minnesota Rural Education Association

  http://www.mnrea.org/

• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Rural Education (archived site)

  http://www.nwrel.org/ruraled/

• National Education Association, Rural Education

  http://www.nea.org/rural/index.html

• Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), Rural Education

  http://www.mcrel.org/topics/RuralEducation/

• The Rural School and Community Trust

  http://www.ruraledu.org/site/c.beJMIZOCIrH/b.497215/k.CBA7/Home.htm