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Howley, Caitlin; Hambrick, Kimberly – ICF International (NJ1), 2011
Building on recent research, ICF sought to explore how socioeconomic status and attachment to place influence rural youths' educational and residential preferences across a wider geographic region. Our research questions included: What are rural high school students' educational and residential plans? And what factors influence rural youths' plans…
Descriptors: High Schools, Second Language Learning, Geographic Regions, Rural Areas
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Dubow, Eric F.; Boxer, Paul; Huesmann; L. Rowell – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
We examine the prediction of individuals' educational and occupational success at age 48 from contextual and personal variables assessed during their middle childhood and late adolescence. We focus particularly on the predictive role of the parents' educational level during middle childhood, controlling for other indices of socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Predictor Variables
Moore, Kathryn M.; Veres, Helen C. – 1975
A total of 1,341 male and female students enrolled at a private women's college, a moderately-sized comprehensive college, an agricultural-technical college, and a small comprehensive college were surveyed to determine demographic and descriptive data, career choices, plans for labor force participation, and perceptions of counseling services.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Career Choice, Counseling Services, Educational Objectives