The crisis of rural life in Russia involves a declining and aging population, emigration of rural young people to urban areas, lack of employment, and farms in urgent need of modernization. Programs in rural schools can be used more deliberately to encourage young people to remain in the village and to equip them to be agents of rural…

Information obtained by combining data collected from a panel of high school sophomores (1966) and seniors (1968) with a recent post-high school follow-up (1972) is used to address the question: Do youth, both whites and blacks, who attend racially desegregated schools, have educational aspirations and expectations which are significantly…

Panel studies examined changes in the educational and occupational aspirations of 191 rural Ohio youth. The 1988 survey questions were similar to those asked in a study conducted 3 years earlier when subjects were 10th and 12th graders. Major findings were: (1) the influence of school personnel on student career and curriculum choices was less…