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Lindstrom, D.E. – 1968
A study designed to determine aptitudes, skills, and sociological and personal factors characterizing rural youth analyzed educational and personal differences of 2,929 students in eight rural Illinois counties during 1963-64. From data obtained through academic tests and personal questionnaires, it was concluded that although three-fourths of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Aspiration, Career Choice
Hernandez, Pedro F.; Picou, J. Steven – 1969
The study was an attempt to discern what rural youth in Louisiana expect to achieve in the future. Objectives of the study were to determine, with reference to race and sex differences, (1) future occupational plans, (2) educational plans, (3) type of community rural youth expected to settle in, and (4) desired age for marriage and number of…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Blacks, Cross Cultural Studies, Disadvantaged Youth
Kuvlesky, William P. – 1971
Projecting the future for the rural youth of America, the paper examined the problems and needs of this group. Rural youth, for the most part economically, socially, and educationally disadvantaged, were not found to be chaffing at the bit to enter the value configurations and behavioral patterns of "Consciousness III". They are still very much…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Aspiration, Change Agents, Community Programs
Auret, Di; McIvor, Chris; Chifunyise, Tisa; McCartney, Irene – 2000
Although Zimbabwe has shown a strong commitment to improving educational access and quality, overall enrollment figures conceal major regional disparities and the lack of education and services in marginalized communities. One neglected sector of the population is the commercial farmworker community, currently comprising about two million hired…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescent Attitudes, Agricultural Laborers, Educational Attitudes

Caldarella, Paul; And Others – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1996
A survey of 41 rural high school counselors from eight western states indicates an emerging problem with crime and youth gangs in rural schools and communities. In addition, school counselors do not feel adequately trained or equipped to deal with gang-related activity in their schools. Includes survey questionnaire. (LP)
Descriptors: Community Problems, Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Training, Crime
Smithmier, Angela – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1994
An ethnographic study of high school seniors in a small rural midwestern high school revealed that, although there was a lack of direct parent and community involvement, the small cohesive class of 30 students constructed a school culture that promoted participation, cooperation, high expectations, and academic achievement. (LP)
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Cultural Context, Educational Experience, Ethnography
Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2006
In 2004, the Center for Rural Pennsylvania contracted with Pennsylvania State University to begin a longitudinal study of rural Pennsylvania school students to understand their future aspirations, the factors influencing these aspirations, whether their plans change as they age, and if they attain their goals and plans. The main research questions…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Rural Environment, Rural Education, Longitudinal Studies
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1989
This report provides demographic, statistical, and other indicator data related to rural education in the Mid-Atlantic region of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The data are intended to aid state rural assistance councils in developing plans to improve rural schools. One obstacle to consistent policy implementation is the…
Descriptors: Definitions, Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs
Dalton, Herbert F., Jr.; Erdmann, David G. – 1990
This report describes the results of the Gulf County (Florida) College Counseling Project designed to raise the educational aspirations of students in rural areas who would otherwise stop their education upon completion of high school. It also describes how and why scores of young people from poor and working class homes in the Florida Panhandle…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admissions Counseling, College Preparation, Counseling Services
Easton, Stanley E. – 1977
Performance of rural 13-year-olds on the 1971-1972 social studies assessment by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were reviewed in terms of three major exercise themes. Performance on skill exercises revealed rural strengths in source selection and human affairs insights, but weaknesses in reading maps and graphs. Fewer than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Current Events, Economics
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1976
Compiled to provide access to some of the latest resource material, research findings, and/or developments in rural education, this bibliography supplements six previous publications, providing cumulative coverage. Part I of this supplement contains 267 citations and abstracts taken from the April 1975 through March 1976 issues of "Resources…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Citation Indexes, Developing Nations
Tonello, Francis V., Ed.; Alilunas, Leo J., Ed. – 1969
This collection of articles, written by administrators and teachers in the small city and rural school districts of Chautauqua and Cattaraugus Counties, New York, deals with the education of culturally disadvantaged white, Negro, Puerto Rican, Indian, and migrant youth. Programs developed by the schools with the aid of Federal funds providing…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Kilpatrick, Sue; Bell, Rowena; Kilpatrick, Peter – 2000
A study examined the impact of high school vocational education and training (VET) courses on small, rural communities in Tasmania (Australia). Data were gathered from site visits and interviews with school principals, VET coordinators, and VET students from three rural Tasmanian high schools. Findings show that the programs met the immediate…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Cooperation, Foreign Countries

O'Brien, Susie – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1998
Seven intensive interviews with female college students at Roseworthy College, a rural agricultural college in South Australia, revealed that the college's historic rural masculine tradition and misogynist social environment restrict women to narrow sexual-subject positions: acting like a male; tutor/cleaner/mother/cook; "slut" versus…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, College Students, Cultural Images, Females
John, Patricia LaCaille, Comp. – 1990
This bibliography contains 108 citations (some with annotations) for selected rural education literature entered into the AGRICOLA database between January 1979 and March 1990. The publications include books, commission papers, journal articles, legal documents, reports, and academic theses. Some of the topics covered in the bibliography as they…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Schools, Drinking, Drug Use