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Download full textSowl, Stephanie; Crain, Andrew M. – Rural Educator, 2021
Aligning with the NREA's "college and career readiness" research priority, this article presents a systematic literature review of 134 publications regarding the state of rural college access and choice research between the years 2000 and 2020. We use Perna's (2006) college choice model to guide our comprehensive summary of current…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Access to Education, College Attendance, College Choice
Crumb, Loni; Chambers, Crystal R.; Chittum, Jessica – Rural Educator, 2021
Too often research studies on Black boys emanate from deficit orientations and take a problem-centered approach that overemphasizes stereotypes or pathologizes Black male students, overlooking their aspirations and successes. Utilizing the High School Longitudinal Survey of 2009 (HSLS: 09), we examined the postsecondary goals of rural Black male…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Rural Youth, Academic Aspiration
Worsham, Rachel E.; Clayton, Ashley B.; Gayles, Joy Gaston – Rural Educator, 2021
This qualitative case study examines the college choice decisions of rural students enrolled in engineering majors to understand what conditions and experiences led rural students to pursue engineering at their institution. We found four themes that help illuminate rural engineering students' college choice journeys (1) The Inextricable Nature of…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Engineering Education, Career Choice, Case Studies
King, Stephanie B. – Rural Educator, 2012
This study examined the perceptions of leaders of grant-supported projects aimed at increasing the college-going rate of high school students in rural Appalachian counties in Mississippi to determine which factors they felt most influenced the college-going rate, parental participation in school activities, and community participation. Analysis of…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Community Involvement, Counties, Workshops
Hutchins, Bryan C.; Meece, Judith L.; Byun, Soo-yong; Farmer, Thomas W. – Rural Educator, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore the postsecondary educational and occupational expectations of work-bound rural youth. Three groups of work-bound youth were identified (work-bound, work-bound with future educational plans, and work-bound but unsure/undecided about postsecondary education), and each group was compared to college-bound…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration, Family Characteristics, Investigations
Doyle, Aaron; Kleinfeld, Judith; Reyes, Maria – Rural Educator, 2009
Indigenous students in rural Alaska hold high educational aspirations and yet few students realize their educational goals (Hamilton & Seyfrit, 1993; Kleinfeld & McDiarmid, 1986; McDiarmid & Kleinfeld, 1981). Our purpose in this study was to understand why so many Alaska Native students from small, isolated communities…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Academic Aspiration
Legutko, Robert S. – Rural Educator, 2008
This study is a quantitative descriptive research design which compared 1995 and 2005 data regarding family influence on rural Pennsylvania high school seniors' postsecondary decisions. A chi-square analysis at p less than 0.05 determined that there was (a) an increase in students planning college attendance, (b) a decrease in students not…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Middle Class, Siblings, College Attendance
