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Locke, Barry L. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1991
Reviews social-work research concerning the differences between rural and urban practice, how rural social workers feel about their practice, and what needs to be taught in professional social-work schools. Suggests a more useful agenda for social-work research. Describes a West Virginia study that identified the research interests of the human…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Needs, Research Problems, Rural Areas
Sawh, Natasha; Charron, Jocelyn – Education Canada, 2003
The access to postsecondary education that is offered to students in rural areas differs significantly from the access available to urban students. An overview is given of the various factors and structural obstacles influencing rural access to postsecondary education, including aspirations, college preparation, socioeconomic characteristics of…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Aspiration, College Preparation, Community Characteristics
Muse, Ivan D. – 1980
Rural teachers face difficulties (lower salaries, inadequate facilities, isolated living, scant inservice training, and inadequate housing) not found in urban school districts, and most have not been prepared for rural life and teaching by their teacher education programs. Specialized training for rural teachers is practically non-existent; most…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Institutional Role
Parker, Timothy S. – Rural Conditions and Trends, 1993
Nonmetro educational attainment increased substantially between 1970 and 1990; however, nonmetro areas continued to lag metro in both high school and college completion rates. The metro-nonmetro gap in high school completion rates narrowed, whereas the gap in four-year college degree completion rates widened. Compares completion rates by region,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, College Graduates, Differences, Educational Attainment
Brown, Dennis E. – 1985
In order that college and university educators and administrators could design a strategy for dealing with rural student dropouts, this study reviewed existing research on rural students who drop out of higher education. Although some research challenges the relationship between persistence in college and rural/urban background, corroborated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academic Persistence, Dropout Prevention
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Kravetz, Nathan – Comparative Education, 1980
Since 1917, Soviet policy has stressed self-determination of non-Russian populations and a commitment to their education. Using 1970 All-Union Census data and some later information, the author examines progress made toward this goal and the educational achievement of various groups. Success is noted and some problems outlined. (Author/SJL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Educational Attainment, Educational Change, Educational Development
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Smith, Peter C.; Cheung, Paul P. L. – Comparative Education Review, 1981
This article looks at Philippine data describing the upward course of educational attainment during a period of especially rapid economic change. It focuses on the distributional features of schooling as a status characteristic, relating the distribution of education to some important personal characteristics, including sex and aspects of social…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Developing Nations, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison
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Ross, Peggy J. – Southern Rural Sociology, 1990
Examines the condition of human resources in the rural South, particularly educational attainment, outmigration, illiteracy, and quality of rural schools. Discusses strategies for the development of human resources in the 1990s involving local, state, and federal governments and the role of rural sociologists. Contains 40 references. (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Community Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Government Role, Higher Education
Thompson, Joanne J.; Menefee, David T. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1994
A national survey of 184 social work managers concerning the frequency of use and importance of 12 managerial competencies did not reveal significant differences between urban and rural respondents. Suggests that the demand for complex and managerial competencies and skills is universal among social work managers. Addresses implications for social…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Administrators, Competence
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McGranahan, David A. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1994
Rural families in the 1990s have less to support their children and schools than a decade earlier: rural poverty (particularly among children), single-parent families, and maternal employment have increased whereas education and incomes of young adults have decreased. Although education has increased in importance for jobs, rural schools systems…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Higher Education
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Hart, L. Gary; Salsberg, Edward; Phillips, Debra M.; Lishner, Denise M. – Journal of Rural Health, 2002
Reviews the rural physician shortage and related policy and research needs. Discusses geographic distribution of physicians, quality of rural care, rural recruitment and retention, rural residency training, factors in medical education affecting entry into rural practice, physician productivity and income, reimbursement, federal and state programs…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Geographic Distribution, Graduate Medical Education, Higher Education
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Gibbs, Robert – FORUM for Applied Research and Public Policy, 2000
Describes general trends in the quality of rural education: equivalent rural and urban performance on national standardized tests and high school graduation rates but continuing rural deficits in college attendance and teacher qualifications. Discusses the below-average performance of southern rural schools, factors affecting rural students'…
Descriptors: College Attendance, College Preparation, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
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Robinson, Jean C. – Comparative Education Review, 1991
Reflects on education in China in light of the changing Communist world. Focuses on the tension among four competing educational goals--economic modernization, education as a universal right, recruitment of elites, and dissemination of ideology--while addressing problems in rural education, literacy education, teacher training, educational…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Herzog, Mary Jean Ronan; Pittman, Robert B. – 1995
To shape reform in rural education, it is necessary to understand the problems, as well as the strengths of rural social and educational communities. An analysis of demographic, economic, and educational trends shows that in rural areas in general, working populations are shrinking, economies are declining, and students are not competing well in…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Characteristics, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kirk, David – Education in Rural Australia, 1994
Recommends implementing specialized preparation for rural preschool teachers to function effectively as distance educators. Addresses differences between urban and rural environments affecting education; the important role of parents as educators in distance education; and the need for distance education preschool teachers to reconceptualize their…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries
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