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Ediger, Marlow – 1994
Each student needs to achieve optimally in oral communication. The rural student should have ample opportunities to experience quality learning activities in communicating with others. First, pupils should have ample opportunities to practice making introductions. In society, people are introduced to each other. It is important to make the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Communication Skills, Learning Activities, Primary Education
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Rao, V. K. R. V. – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1975
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Developing Nations, Educational Needs, Educational Programs
Conrad, Rowan W.; McMahon, S. Lynne – 1974
The Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) was administered to 108 rural disadvantaged students entering the six-State regional Mountain-Plains program. Results indicate a low degree of self-actualization on all scales versus normal adults with no differences observed by sex and only one among States. Ethnic group differences are, however, observed…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Disadvantaged, Personality Measures, Rural Education
Miles, Guy H. – 1971
This report covers the first phase of a three-phase research program entitled "Developing Model NYC Programs for Rural Youth". The report contains three sections. The first section, "An Experimental Rural Youth Program for the North Central States" contains a detailed description of the general framework of a program for rural…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Employment, Geographic Regions, Program Development
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Admassie, A. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2003
Results of a household survey from rural Ethiopia indicate that rural children commonly participated in household and agricultural work from a very early age, and more than half of working children had never attended school. In the context of subsistence economies such as these, initial policy interventions should aim to make the combination of…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Attendance, Child Labor, Disadvantaged
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Howley, Caitlin – Journal of Appalachian Studies, 2006
An exploratory analysis of the meanings families attach to schooling, this article is based upon interviews conducted with three white, middle-class families--one from rural West Virginia, another from a small West Virginia city, and a third from rural Pennsylvania. I hoped that this preliminary effort would help me think about how families view…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Rural Youth, Interviews, Whites
Affolter, Madeline R. – 1985
The document examines the nature of itinerant teaching with hearing impaired students in rural areas. The itinerant teacher's varied roles in working with teachers, administrators, parents, and students are explored. Needs skills, including mediation skills and experience in counseling, are reviewed. Suggestions are offered for interacting with…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Itinerant Teachers, Mainstreaming
New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity, Trenton. – 1966
A Rural Youth Development Program was organized in 1965 as an agency under the New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity to provide counseling, education, vocational training, and job placement for approximately 600 disadvantaged New Jersey rural youth. The first of two phases was designed to provide 450 young men, ages 16 through 21, with short…
Descriptors: Counseling, Dropout Programs, History, Job Placement
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Huber, Joseph D.; Garten, Ted – Rural Educator, 1993
Discusses the importance of recognizing and understanding the consequences of stress, distress, and burnout among rural middle school students. Provides guidelines for diminishing the effects of distress and burnout among students and for conducting teacher inservice programs on distress and ways to manage personal and professional stress. (LP)
Descriptors: Burnout, Inservice Teacher Education, Intervention, Middle Schools
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Temirov, N. S. – Russian Education and Society, 1997
Explores the value orientations of the rural school students of Uzbekistan by asking the students a variety of indirect questions, such as what their favorite motto in life is. Finds that these students were concerned mostly with social, moral, and spiritual values. (CMK)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Religion, Rural Education
LINDSTROM, D.E. – 1965
THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THE PRESENT STATUS OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND NEEDS OF RURAL YOUTH. EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT MOST RURAL YOUTH DO NOT PLAN TO ATTEND COLLEGE, AND THAT THESE NONCOLLEGE BOUND STUDENTS DO NOT SCORE AS WELL ON APTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT TESTS AS THOSE PLANNING ON COLLEGE. APPROXIMATELY 80 PERCENT OF THESE STUDENTS DO NOT FEEL…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts, Education
New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity, Trenton. – 1968
The Rural Manpower Development Program (RMDP) is an agency of the New Jersey Office of Economic Opportunity established for the purpose of demonstrating the feasibility of a comprehensive manpower service for unemployed or underemployed disadvantaged people from the rural areas of New Jersey. Included in this achievement report is historical and…
Descriptors: Counseling, Job Placement, On the Job Training, Program Administration
Gore, 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
Kuvlesky, William P.; Jacob, Nelson L. – 1968
Forty-nine research reports published between 1947 and 1968 are listed and annotated for researchers interested in status projections of rural youth. The annotations are designed to point out areas of conflicting findings, unresearched problems, weaknesses in method, and areas of agreement in past findings. The entries are indexed by content and…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Status Comparison, Family Structure
Durham, Brian; Danner, Mona J. E.; Seyfrit, Carole L. – 1999
This paper focuses on identifying the nature of immediate postsecondary educational activities in a rural area and compares these activities to educational aspirations held in high school. As part of a larger study in the rural Eastern Shore of Virginia, all students in grades 9-12 in Northampton and Accomack Counties were surveyed in 1995. These…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Students, High School Graduates, Postsecondary Education
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