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Van Gundy, Karen T.; Rebellon, Cesar J.; Jaffee, Eleanor M.; Stracuzzi, Nena F.; Sharp, Erin Hiley; Tucker, Corinna Jenkins – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
Late in first decade of the 2000s, the closing of pulp and paper mills in the rural northeastern United States contributed to economic decline in the region and to rising concerns about population decline due to out-migration among local emerging adults in search of occupational or educational opportunities. In this context, and drawing on a…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Grade 7, Grade 9, Rural Youth
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Estell, David B.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Irvin, Matthew J.; Thompson, Jana H.; Hutchins, Bryan C.; McDonough, Erin M. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
The transition to high school has been identified as a potentially difficult time in adolescents' lives. Reductions in both academic and social functioning often accompany this transition. While these effects have been documented in urban youth, the move to high school has not been extensively studied in rural minority youth. Toward that end, the…
Descriptors: African American Students, Rural Youth, Adolescents, Grade 9