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White, Fred; Tweeten, Luther – 1972
The report showed ways of providing rural youths with quality schooling while keeping costs down. An Oklahoma survey of student needs measured quality differences between rural and urban areas. Students from farms, ranches, and small towns consistently ranked below students in middle and large cities on achievement tests in each grade level…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Consolidated Schools
Muse, Ivan D. – 1977
Characterized by limited financial resources, course offerings, vocational education programs, faculty, and administrators, rural schools have a student population that is generally poorer, less motivated, more culturally deprived, and more isolated than its urban counterpart. Consequently, the rural school teacher has an especially demanding job,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Competency Based Teacher Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Gomez de Souza, Luis A.; Ribeiro, Lucia – 1976
Conducted in a rural area in the province of Chiriqui in Panama, this exploratory study identified the participation in, and perception of, development by rural youth. Twenty-eight young men and 8 women, between 15 and 28 years of age, were divided into 2 subgroups: campesinos--those who worked in the Asentamientos (a system of collective farming)…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Attitudes, Change Agents, Community Involvement
Wyn, Johanna; Stokes, Helen; Stafford, John – 1998
This report examines the challenges facing young people living in rural Australia in relation to their health and well-being and explores the relevance of personal resilience to offset these challenges. Specifically, the report synthesizes the literature on rural Australian youth and the results of focus groups undertaken in five rural…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Health Care, Community Programs, Community Role
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sydney (Australia). – 1999
Bush Talks is an initiative of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission that aims to identify the major human rights issues confronting rural and remote residents, to inform rural Australians about human rights, and to develop projects to advance human rights in rural Australia. This paper summarizes major issues raised by…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Access to Education, Civil Rights, Culturally Relevant Education
Oetting, E. R.; Edwards, R. W.; Kelly, K.; Beauvais, F. – 1997
This paper examines the links between various personal and social risk factors and drug use among youth living in rural communities. Data were collected through self-report surveys administered to 1,656 7th- and 8th-grade students and 1,205 11th- and 12th-grade students in 9 rural communities with populations ranging from 451 to 18,400. Surveys…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, At Risk Persons

Dahlstrom, Margareta – Journal of Rural Studies, 1996
Suggests that young women migrate from rural to urban areas in northern Scandinavia because the rural "periphery" is dominated by male economic and leisure activities. A study in northern Norway indicates that more young women than young men valued higher education and highly qualified careers, both of which were more attainable in urban…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Economic Factors, Educational Opportunities, Employment Opportunities

Larson, Nancy C.; Dearmont, Melissa – Child Welfare, 2002
Explores the unique values and characteristics of rural communities and farm families, particularly individual, family, and community factors that may protect children from potentially negative developmental effects of chronic stress or adversity. Considers community strengths in supporting children's healthy development. Identifies implications…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Caseworker Approach, Child Development, Child Welfare
Miller, Bruce A. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1995
Explores issues related to expanding the roles of rural schools and youth in community development; summarizes literature related to community development and social capital; reports on how three rural Midwest communities built linkages between the school and community; reports on data from a symposium on community-based learning; and addresses…
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Policy, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Singh, Kusum; Dika, Sandra – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2003
This study explored the social networks and sources of social support for rural high-school adolescents and how these are related to educational and psychological outcomes. We examined quality, frequency. and nature of social relationships of high school students to understand how size, density, heterogeneity, compositional quality of social…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Outcomes of Education, Adolescents, Social Networks
Bloodsworth, Gaston; Fitzgerald, Doris – 1993
Most educational movements have been in the direction of national standards, have been urban oriented, and often have failed to recognize or acknowledge the uniqueness of rural education. Consequently, rural education has become little more than a second thought as teachers' skills are developed. This paper examines the contribution colleges of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Curriculum Design, Education Courses, Educational Practices
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Asian Centre for Educational Innovation for Development. – 1982
Volume 3 of a five-volume portfolio of studies reflecting different facets of the concept of education for rural development contains three studies on health and nutrition. The first study, "Health Education in Rural Development," by K. D. Ariyadasa (Sri Lanka), discusses the role of education in the transmission of health and integrated…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agency Cooperation, Change Agents, Community Education
Chu, Lily; Culbertson, Jeanne – 1982
Questionnaires were administered to 73 sophomore and senior high school students in 3 isolated rural Alaska towns (Adak, Unalaska, and Dillingham) to study the effects of socio-economic factors on rural Alaskan youth's educational aspirations and expectations. Because of a military-supported economy, Adak was a typical middle class American…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Comparative Analysis
Yang, Shu-O W. – 1981
Data from the National Longitudinal Study of 1972 (designed to provide statistics on a national sample of young adults as they moved out of high school into their early adulthood) were utilized to examine the determinants of college attendance with controlling variables, such as family background and students' ability. The sample from base year…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, College Attendance, College Bound Students
Kuvlesky, William P. – 1981
Results of surveys (in 1967, 1973, and 1978-1979) of nonmetropolitan Mexican American high school sophomores from South Texas indicated that, although broad similarities existed between males and females, there were also specific patterned gender differences in social behavior and orientations. In status projection levels, particularly educational…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Acculturation, Cultural Influences, Dropouts