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Download full textGore, Deborah, Ed. – Goldfinch: Iowa History for Young People, 1988
This issue focuses on Iowa's role in the historical development of the 4-H youth program. "Roots in Iowa" and "Jessie Field Shambaugh: The Mother of 4-H" (J. Friedel) describes the rural Iowan roots of the 4-H program, which today is located in 80 different countries, and give the story of its founder. Jessie Shambaugh, a rural…
Descriptors: International Programs, Nonschool Educational Programs, Program Development, Rural Education
Jacobson, Michael; Lombard, Robert – Rural Research Report, 1992
This report examines the development of law-related education (LRE), discusses the extent of its implementation in rural Illinois, and describes the efforts made by the Illinois Institute for Public Understanding About the Law (IIPUAL) in bringing LRE to rural schools. The goals of LRE are to provide students with an understanding of the law and…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Distance Education, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Armstrong, Nancy – Illinois Rural Life Panel Summary Report, 1993
The Illinois Rural Life Panel, a sample of approximately 2,000 residents living in Illinois' 76 nonmetropolitan counties, is surveyed annually about various issues. The 1993 survey results are reported in four brief summaries. In the first summary, which discusses health care, panelists indicated dissatisfaction with the current health-care…
Descriptors: Community Services, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Services
Blair, Leslie Asher, Ed. – SEDLetter, 2001
This theme issue of the newsletter SEDLetter contains articles about the challenges facing rural youth, communities, and schools, and the ways that rural schools are meeting those challenges. "When Rural Traditions Really Count" (Ullik Rouk) outlines the rural situation with regard to adolescent substance abuse, youth gangs, teen pregnancy,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Frank, Mary, Ed. – Children in Contemporary Society, 1980
The contemporary rural population, comprising one-quarter of the nation's total, is diverse. Hence, no single label can be applied to its inhabitants, its families, or its children. This collection of articles, highlighted with drawings by five year old rural residents, describes adaptations to modern American life made by three types of rural…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Children, Community Change, Demography
Rural Development Perspectives, 1995
This special theme issue reports key results from a comprehensive assessment of skill development among the rural workforce and of rural education and job training in rural areas. This comprehensive assessment had three goals: to develop better measures of rural skills than were previously available, to identify human capital initiatives that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Dropouts, Educational Attainment
