The study compared the academic achievement of 12 children who had attended a public school kindergarten in a rural school in Appalachia with the academic achievement of 12 children who had not attended public school kindergarten. Criteria for selection of the groups were: they entered first grade in the fall of 1969, had been in the same school…

Examining delinquency problems/services in rural Tennessee, existing secondary data on rural-urban delinquency patterns in the U.S. and Tennessee were compiled; officials and professionals (N=51) working with juveniles in East Tennessee were surveyed; and a preliminary estimation of costs associated with possibilities for improving juvenile…