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Lube, Edna Droz; Calero, Reinaldo – 1980
As part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture research project on young adults, a questionnaire was distributed in the fall of 1977 to all agriculture science and home economics students at the University of Puerto Rico in order to determine their personal and parental backgrounds; work, college, and high school experiences; life goals and attitudes…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Agricultural Colleges, Agriculture, Career Choice
Lee, Hsiang-po – 1972
How education has been used for rural development in the People's Republic of China since 1949 may have important lessons for other nations, particularly in the area of nonformal schools. Responsibility for all education lies with the commune. Educational programs, enthusiastically received by the people, support local needs and development rather…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Education, Agriculture, Change Agents
Gabbard, Anne V.; Coleman, A. Lee – 1976
Changes in the occupational and educational aspirations and expectations of fifth and sixth grade children over a 6-year period were studied. In 1969, a questionnaire was administered to 355 students from 4 rural mountain schools and 3 urban schools in low-income areas in 3 Kentucky counties. In 1975, 199 students from the same rural mountain…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Aspiration, Black Students, Comparative Analysis

Cusack, Mary Ann – 1974
An eight-year project--Project SACI--begun in 1969 is introducing technology into Brazil's educational system. It is based upon the hypotheses that technology can deliver education to more students, increase achievement, and provide cost-effective teacher education. To rest these hypotheses, Project SACI aims to bring satellite transmission of…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Developing Nations, Educational Radio, Educational Technology
Edington, Everett D., Ed.; And Others – 1977
Constituting the first material accomplishment of the recently formed International Network of Rural Youth Researchers (INRYR), this annotated bibliography presents abstracts of 19 papers presented at the Fourth World Congress for Rural Sociology during the summer of 1976 at Torun, Poland in a seminar entitled "Rural Youth: Human Resource or…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Aspiration, Agriculture, Annotated Bibliographies
Payne-Bourcy, Laura – 2001
This doctoral study examined the literacy practices of two rural adolescents as they crossed between the social contexts of their rural community, Winnona Hill, and higher education. Data collected primarily through semi-structured e-mail interviews over a 4-year period indicated that both informants used multiple literacies and a range of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Dissonance, College Environment, College Students, Coping
Howell, Frank M.; Tung, Yuk-Ying; Wade-Harper, Cynthia – 1996
This report examines the extent and process by which rural origins may affect socioeconomic attainments in adulthood and how these "costs" have changed during this century. Introductory sections review research and theories of rural differentiation and stratification and the history of major federal policy initiatives for rural…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Employment Level, Family Income, Place of Residence
James, Richard; Wyn, Johanna; Baldwin, Gabrielle; Hepworth, Gary; McInnis, Craig; Stephanou, Andrew – 1999
The imbalances between the higher education participation of rural and urban Australians are significant and persistent. This study examined the attitudes, goals, and plans of Australian senior high school students via a survey of over 7,000 students in grades 10-12 in three states, complemented by interviews with about 350 students in 20 rural…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, College Attendance, Disadvantaged

Heaton, Tim B.; Forste, Renata – Rural Sociology, 2003
In Bolivia, a third of rural children are stunted, and rural infants are twice as likely to die before age 2 than urban infants. National survey data indicate child survival and development are related to maternal education and literacy, community sanitation practices, access to health care, and socioeconomic status. Parental knowledge about…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, American Indians, Child Development, Child Health
Enochs, Larry G. – 1988
This paper studies the needs and strengths of rural schools with the intent of improving rural science education. It examines the history of rural schools, and posits a rural-to-urban continuum of characteristics, citing studies that indicate rural schools are more effective in some ways than urban schools. The paper looks at needs of rural/small…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Community Development, Community Support, Educational Quality
1983
Alaska Teacher-Coordinators in the Rural Student Vocational Program (RSVP) should be familiar with activities necessary to insure proper selection of students and proper and meaningful work placement. In RSVP, students from outlying high schools travel to Anchorage, Fairbanks, or Juneau to participate in 2 weeks of work experience with cooperating…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Field Experience Programs, Grade 11, Grade 12
Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC. Office of Governmental and Public Affairs. – 1980
This booklet, one in a series about life on modern farms, describes the daily life of two black farm families, the Minisees of Michigan and the Sims brothers of Arkansas. Beginning with early morning chores, the booklet describes some of the chores they do in running their diversified farms and how they got started in farming. Although the booklet…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Blacks, Business Skills
Schaub, James D. – 1981
The report identifies structural changes and trends in the composition of the nonmetro labor force between 1973 and 1979; evaluates the labor force performance by race, sex, and age; and suggests underlying causes of the major changes and the likelihood of particular trends continuing into the eighties. Tabular data indicate that: (1) metro and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Employment, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women
Call, Vaughn R. A. – 1980
To measure urban-rural differences in types of career counseling received by students and perceptions held by students regarding career planning activities, research was conducted to extend the 1975 study by Noeth, Roth, and Prediger, which used the same career questions and resulting data, but did not include the urban-rural comparison. The…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning
Dunne, Faith; And Others – 1980
Selected pages of the four units in the rural high school career development and life planning curriculum have been adapted to reflect the conditions, characteristics, and people of the Appalachian South; the majority of the specific examples are drawn from Tennessee. The field-tested adaptation packet contains revised pages for both teaching…
Descriptors: Career Development, Curriculum Guides, Daily Living Skills, Decision Making Skills