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Direct linkMcClain, Melissa R. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Rural, economically disadvantaged students in Southern Appalachia experienced numerous situations that could negatively affect them socially, emotionally, behaviorally, and academically. Educators who routinely worked with rural, economically disadvantaged students should understand the difficulties these students experienced, as well as employ…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Rural Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Kinsinger, Katherine Stahl – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The literature presents conflicting views of the rural experience, with one perspective chronicling the deficits associated with growing up rural while the other reveals advantages to small-town community and schooling influences. Adding to the complexities of the rural narrative are the recent demographic and social changes in rural…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Academic Persistence, Family Influence, Student Experience
Holbrook, Sandy – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The need for developmental education is ever present in higher education as more students annually enter college underprepared for entry level college coursework. Underpreparedness is a pervasive concern in higher education. Community colleges in particular are the primary means of shepherding developmental education. Academic underpreparedness is…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Academic Achievement, Rural Youth, Rural Schools
Boydstun, Kelli Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This qualitative case study investigated how the GEAR-Up college readiness program influenced the postsecondary decisions of Hispanic students who participated in the GEAR-Up program for the recommended six-year period in a rural school district in Texas. It was not known how long-term participation in the GEAR-Up program at a rural school…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Rural Youth, Hispanic American Students, Program Effectiveness
Neely, Drustella – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The use of zero tolerance discipline in schools in the Mississippi Delta created considerable obstacles for African American students to excel, achieve, and graduate. This study used a qualitative phenomenological method to examine and assess how the application of the 1994 zero-tolerance disciplinary policies in Mississippi Delta public schools…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Zero Tolerance Policy, Discipline
Beasley, Sarah Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine college pathways or college access and success of rural, first-generation students. Most research on college pathways for low- and moderate-income students focuses on those students as a whole or on urban low-socioeconomic status (SES) students. (Caution is in order when generalizing the experiences of…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Rural Youth, Rural Schools, Academic Aspiration
