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Direct linkMacgarvey, Anna – Rural Society, 2005
Young people's lives have been directly and indirectly affected by the dynamics of decline in rural Australia. In early 1999, the Casterton region experienced the suicides of two young people. These events led to the funding of a rural youth education and support program at the town's secondary college. The program adopts a multi-layered approach…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Youth, Rural Education, Suicide
Download full textMurdoch, Colin, Ed.; Wood, Giovanna, Ed. – 1997
This conference proceedings of the Society for the Provision of Education in Rural Australia (SPERA) contains 19 presentations and workshops. An introductory section includes SPERA's mission, goals, and history; a brief welcome address by SPERA president Sheila King; a list of past conference proceedings; and abstracts of presentations. The…
Descriptors: College Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation
Leach, Mozelle P. – 1987
In order to investigate the efficacy of a decade-long language arts tutoring program, a study compared students' responses to a survey of their participation in and attitudes about the program with their Reading, Language, Math, and Total scores on the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT) and other tests. The tutoring program assigned college students…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Students, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Herzog, Mary Jean R. – 1996
This paper examines rural conditions from three perspectives: education, demographics, and economics from national, state and regional data sources; Rural Attitude Survey data from students at Western Carolina University in the Appalachian mountain region; and concerns of teachers about education in the region derived from focus group discussions.…
Descriptors: College Students, Education Majors, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Grant, Dale F.; And Others – 1995
Gifted females have less frequently sought high-prestige and high-income careers due to a number of barriers. Some barriers are related to society's expectations of women, and others are related to the workplace itself. The most limiting and pervasive barrier is "sex role socialization's impact on the child's developing self-belief system"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Academically Gifted, Adolescents
Butera, Gretchen; McMullen, Lynn; Phillips, Ruthellen – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2000
Energy Express is a summer reading and nutrition program for disadvantaged young children in 80 rural West Virginia communities. College student/AmeriCorps mentors support childrens' literacy by creating a print-rich environment, using a place-based curriculum, and providing activities, including a community service project. Two case studies…
Descriptors: College Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Emergent Literacy
