Enhancing Achievement in Rural Schools : A Reply to Eppley
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Correspondence regarding this manuscript should be addressed to: Dr. Jean Stockard, Director of Research, National Institute for Direct Instruction and Professor Emerita, University of Oregon, P. O. Box 11248, 805 Lincoln Street, Eugene, OR 97440; Email: [email protected]. I appreciate the opportunity to reply to Professor Eppley’s comment on my paper that was recently published in the Journal of Research in Rural Education (Stockard, 2011b). Her paper contains numerous statements that misrepresent both the content of my original paper and the social science literature as well as a number of provocative philosophical comments. In the pages that follow I address each of these areas
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