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Bender, Carl M.; Petty, Gregory C. – 1980
This document contains one of two reports presented at the Governor's National Forum on Youth Employment, May 22-23, 1980. Focusing on the issue of youth employment, this report is divided into seven sections. Section 1 discusses the high national youth unemployment rate. Section 2 describes a variety of factors pertinent to youth unemployment and…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Projections, Employment Statistics, Influences
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Direct linkWalberg, Herbert J.; Greenberg, Rebecca – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1996
Cites statistics characterizing the growing problems faced by students, such as violence, drug use, declining trust, and cheating. Summarizes the contributions of this issue's articles with regard to the influence of early experience on aspirations, and observes that surveys and interview techniques can enrich understanding of the problems and…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textDey, Ian; Jentsch, Birgit – 2000
With the advent of a Scottish Parliament and a Minister and Parliamentary Committee for Rural Affairs, there is now a broad consensus that policies are needed to generate "quality jobs" for young people in rural Scotland. This agenda is politically appealing, since it addresses various rural problems, including retention of young people…
Descriptors: Community Problems, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Job Development
Akehurst, Michael; Marsland, David – 1981
Historically, little has been written or researched about British rural youth. Since the late 1970s, however, largely as a result of initiatives within the Youth Service, rural youth have become identified as a separate, definable area of concern and study. The present trend toward high unemployment is hitting young people particularly hard,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Environment, Distance, Females
Columbia Univ., New York, NY. National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. – 2000
America's substance abuse epidemic has come to rural America. Adults in small metropolitan and rural areas are just as likely as those in urban America to use and abuse illegal drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. Young teens in small metropolitan and rural areas are more likely to abuse substances than those in large metro areas. Based on a wide variety…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drinking, Illegal Drug Use, Incidence
Jankovic, Joanne, Ed.; And Others – 1980
Producing a much-needed organized body of literature about rural juvenile justice, 14 papers (largely from the 1979 National Symposium on Rural Justice) are organized to identify current issues, identify forces causing changes in current systems, review programs responding to rural juvenile justice problems, and provide planning models to aid…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Responsibility, Children, Crime
