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Jennings, Zellynne D.; Edmond, Daniel – 1986
Belize (formerly British Honduras) has achieved a good deal of success with its Rural Education and Agriculture Programme (REAP). REAP was initiated in 1976 to create the attitudes and provide the skills necessary for rural youth to make meaningful contributions to the country's agricultural development. Initiated by an intraministerial and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Developing Nations, Educational History, Program Content
BREATHITT, EDWARD T. – 1967
THE YOUTH OF RURAL AMERICA ARE NOT AFFORDED EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, EXPERIENCE INADEQUATE MEDICAL SERVICES, AND FAIL IN GENERAL TO REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF THEIR CITY COUNTERPARTS. THESE CONDITIONS FACING RURAL YOUTH ARE NOT CONFINED TO ANY SINGLE AREA OF THE COUNTRY, BUT ARE WIDESPREAD ENOUGH THAT THEY…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Health Services, Housing Deficiencies, Low Income
Gillie, Angelo C., Sr. – 1975
The rural community college must be vocational in orientation and provide its students with social, economic, and political facts related to their lives and employment now and in the future. It must offer equal opportunity to consider and select training for either rural or urban occupations. In order to offer this diversity, a college must have a…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Job Skills
Dawson, Howard A., Comp.; Hubbard, Frank W., Comp. – 1944
The White House Conference on Rural Education (1944) called together 230 of the country's best known rural educators to lay plans for the peacetime establishment of our educational system on a better basis than we have ever known before (with Federal aid when necessary). One of the dynamic outcomes of the four conference sessions was compilation…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Educational Responsibility
Edington, Everett D. – 1971
A review of the available research relevant to the characteristics of disadvantaged rural students shows them to be affected in several areas. The low socioeconomic status of large numbers of noncorporate-farm families and rural ethnic minority groups is a characteristic of prime importance, particularly in view of the relationship between…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Educational Attitudes, Educationally Disadvantaged
Plowman, Paul D. – 1967
An attempt to define some parameters and to establish guidelines for the education of rural gifted children and youth is presented in this report. Parameters of access discussed include access to experiences and environments; in addition, the relationships among some of these parameters are shown in chart form. Also examined are the roles of…
Descriptors: Charts, Coordination, Counseling Services, Creativity
Morgan, Don A., Ed. – 1972
Topics discussed at this conference concerned with education for the rural poor were: (1) "The Community College and the Rural Poor," (2) "The Rural Low Income Student--What a Small College Can Do to Get Them Into School and Keep Them There," (3) "The New Iron Ore Industry Worker Needs New Schools and New Programs to Keep Marketable," (4) "The…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged, Financial Support
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Zimbelman, Kirk – Journal of Rural Community Psychology, 1987
Examines the relations among achievement motivation, locus of control, and the occupational and educational aspirations of 92 rural and 98 metropolitan 11th graders from South Dakota. Rural subjects had lower occupational and educational aspirations but did not differ from urban subjects in achievement motivation or locus of control. (Author/TES)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Achievement Need, Locus of Control, Occupational Aspiration
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Chu, Lily; Culbertson, Jeanne – Research in Rural Education, 1982
Examines educational expectations, aspirations, and anticipatory goal deflections of 73 high school sophomores and seniors with a variety of racial-ethnic backgrounds from 3 isolated rural Alaska schools. Reports significant differences between groups and schools; rural Alaskan Natives showed much lower expectations and aspirations than any other…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indians, Aspiration, Educational Attitudes
Meehan, Merrill L.; Cowley, Kimberly S.; Whittaker, Denise – 2001
In 1999, Fairmont State College (West Virginia) received a Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) grant for a 5-year program designed to encourage college aspirations and preparation among disadvantaged rural youth. During the first 2 years, parents and students in nine counties were surveyed to determine their…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Administrator Attitudes, College Preparation, Disadvantaged Youth
Armstrong, Nancy – Illinois Rural Life Panel Summary Report, 1993
The Illinois Rural Life Panel, a sample of approximately 2,000 residents living in Illinois' 76 nonmetropolitan counties, is surveyed annually about various issues. The 1993 survey results are reported in four brief summaries. In the first summary, which discusses health care, panelists indicated dissatisfaction with the current health-care…
Descriptors: Community Services, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Services
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Washington, DC. – 1993
This packet of materials provides information about tours for rural secondary students in Washington, D.C., sponsored jointly by the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), state rural electric cooperatives, and statewide associations of rural electric systems. Since 1958 this program has selected high school students to visit…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Cooperatives, Federal Government, Field Trips
Cutler, Morris – 1981
The Radio Language Arts Project (RLAP) is a pilot program being developed in Kenya to provide a cost effective English-as-a-second-language program via radio to rural children. The RLAP will use an integrative language arts approach focusing on language function, meaning, and communication activities, with listening and oral language preceding…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Educational Radio, English (Second Language), Language Arts
Bird, Alan R. – 1964
The poverty problems in rural America are categorized and analyzed in terms of the extent and persistence of rural poverty, causes and costs of poverty, poverty characteristics of rural areas, and implications for anti-poverty programs. The report defines poverty and briefly traces the history of rural poverty over the past 20 years. Maps, charts,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Facilities, Family Income, Poverty
Wood, A. W. – 1974
The evolution and diversification of alternative educational programmes for rural communities are traced from the "shock-absorber" approach, aimed at a sector of society which presented a visible need, toward community education and some of the working principles behind it. The starting point for examining educational evolution is traditional…
Descriptors: Community Education, Developing Nations, Dropouts, Educational Programs
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