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Perceived Local Job Prospects and School Connectedness in a Struggling Rural Economy: A Life-Course Perspective
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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
Technology Use in Rural Schools: A Study of a Rural High School Trying to Use iPads in the Classroom
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Kalonde, Gilbert – Rural Educator, 2017
The purpose of this case study was to explore how rural high school teachers and students, grades 9-12 use iPads in class, the obstacles and barriers to teacher and student iPad use, and the relationship between types and frequency of use, in one high school in Southern Oregon. The study consisted of classroom observations and follow-up interviews…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Rural Schools, High Schools, Telecommunications
Engagement in School and Community Civic Activities among Rural Adolescents
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Ludden, Alison Bryant – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2011
Involvement in civic and community activities is a core part of positive youth development. Adolescents involved in voluntary civic activities have greater academic engagement, enhanced well-being, less involvement in problem behaviors, and they are more likely to value connections to their community than those who are not involved. The current…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Youth, Adolescents, Student Government
Rural Youth Education Project: Second Wave
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McLaughlin, Diane K.; Demi, Mary Ann; Curry, Alisha; Snyder, Anastasia R. – Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2009
In 2004, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania contracted with Pennsylvania State University to begin a longitudinal study of rural Pennsylvania school students to understand their educational and career aspirations and the factors influencing their aspirations, whether their plans change as they age and if they attain their goals. In its entirety,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Rural Areas, Data Collection
Patterns of Middle School Adjustment and Ninth Grade Adaptation of Rural African American Youth: Grades and Substance Use
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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
Social and Academic Expectations about High School for At-Risk Rural Youth
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Stein, Gabriela Livas; Hussong, Andrea – American Secondary Education, 2007
This study examines high school expectancies in a sample of at-risk, rural youth, and how these expectancies relate to 8th grade functioning, 9th grade functioning, and 9th grade experiences of high school. A total of 76 eighth-graders and their parents, drawn from a larger study of the transition to high school, participated in interviews the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Rural Youth, Grade 9, Educational Environment