Rural education may be entering a renaissance after 60 years of neglect. Improvements include: multidistrict shared services with special attention given to exceptional persons; new delivery systems; more relevant training for school personnel; and effective dissemination of successfully established school practices. (CJ)

Education in rural communities is an interesting site for an analysis of the relationship between place and the cultural politics of schooling. In particular the movements of people, ideas and practices to and from, and also within, rural places suggest the need for theorizing on rural education to consider the relevance of new mobility…

Using 1970 Census data, rural counties are compared to all U.S. counties by selected personal, education, employment, and income population characteristics. (MS)

RURAL EDUCATION IS DEFINED AS THAT WHICH PREVAILS IN SPARSELY POPULATED AREAS AND SMALL RURAL COMMUNITIES (LESS THAN 2500 POPULATION). FACTORS USUALLY FOUND WITH SUCH SCHOOL OFFERINGS, INCLUDE SPARSITY OF POPULATION, SMALL SCHOOL ENROLLMENTS, ISOLATION FROM CULTURAL EVENTS, AND REMOTENESS FROM EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES. SUCH FACTORS AS THESE HELP…

Northeastern Illinois University developed a student teaching program designed to prepare the student teacher to function in both an inner-city setting where children are less advantaged socioeconomically as well as in an outer-city setting where the children come from relatively higher socioeconomic backgrounds. The five major aspects of the…

Reports results of a 1977-78 survey of administrators in 122 Tennessee school districts to determine psychological services available, immediate and future manpower needs, positions available, and appropriate training. Notes that most districts both provided and need more services and that psychological service differed in rural and urban…

Analysis of the content of three multicultural textbooks found that issues of place were not emphasized and rural issues were neglected. Rural culture was overshadowed by urban, and rural issues were dealt with in the context of urban issues. Rurality was invisible and rural stereotypes were perpetuated. (Contains 20 references.) (SK)

Early political struggles over principles of governance culminated in our "commercially competitive civil society" in which numbers equate with power, resulting in disempowerment of rural people, decreasing rural influence on public policy, and consequent irrelevant education in rural communities. Education can provide the basis for a…

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…

What is known about rural science education is derived from perceptions with little empirical data available. Science educators need to develop a database related to rural education to better meet needs of rural children. Available data should be analyzed to provided a framework on which rural science education may grow. (BRR)

Questions "supply-push" theory of rural development, which suggests that upgrading workers' skills will guarantee rural development. Data from past two decades show tendency of decreasing growth in job skills and in requirement for quantifiable job skills (e.g., level of education). Upgrading job skills by itself seems unlikely to pay…

The lack of consensus among researchers in defining the focal construct of rurality has led to contradictory conclusions of whether or not a rural-urban performance gap exists in higher education. Compounding this problem are the changing definitions of rural and urban, even among governmental agencies. Thus, this study used two different…

Some 352 documents and 166 journal articles published between 1955 and 1970 are cited in this bibliography on rural education and small schools. Part I contains citations and abstracts which have appeared in "Research in Education" from September 1969 through July 1971. Part II includes citations of journal articles from "Current…

Argues that state government must take a strong lead in promoting rural development. Justification for such a role includes improving the efficiency of the state's economy; making full use of fixed investments; improving rural-urban equity; preserving a rural lifestyle; and responding effectively to population density differences between rural and…

Administered an open-ended survey to 187 rural and urban tenth grade students in Minnesota. Students were asked to describe their community, state, nation, and world. Comparison of rural and urban students' responses revealed both similarities and differences. Discusses implication for rural education and rural education research. (Author/KS)