Discusses the importance of recognizing and understanding the consequences of stress, distress, and burnout among rural middle school students. Provides guidelines for diminishing the effects of distress and burnout among students and for conducting teacher inservice programs on distress and ways to manage personal and professional stress. (LP)

Describes a program in a rural school district in Georgia that brings teens, their babies, and the teens' parents together. Notes that the program combines the elements of early intervention, parent involvement, parenting skills, literacy, and career preparation. (RS)

Although China's fast-changing economy and Communist Party decrees are promoting vocational education, debate is raging over what kind of vocational education is most appropriate for rural areas like Luoyang, whose occupational structure is becoming increasingly industrial. Since larger electronic enterprises favor generally educated students,…

Explores the value orientations of the rural school students of Uzbekistan by asking the students a variety of indirect questions, such as what their favorite motto in life is. Finds that these students were concerned mostly with social, moral, and spiritual values. (CMK)

An economical strategy used to expand the curriculum at the Peterson (Minnesota) secondary school, a small rural facility, is described. The need for an enriched curriculum was identified on the basis of several shortcomings perceived in the existing school program: few electives, student stereotyping and cliques, and inadequate special needs…

The combining of Agricultural and technical work is characteristic of the content and structure of the polytechnical labor training of Russian rural children in secondary schools. Ways for improving labor education in rural schools are specifically discussed. (Author/RM)

Suggests that schools include technology in the curriculum; the emphasis should be on the analysis of real problems. (LS)

Describes the new national policy changes in education as: (1) dividing the secondary school into two phases, each lasting three years; (2) creating the junior secondary school composed of pre-vocational and academic courses; and (3) creating the senior secondary school which is comprehensive in its curriculum. (BSR)

Examined relationship between 1983-84 Nebraska high school enrollments and program breadth and junior-senior high school enrollments and teacher endorsement rates. Concluded rural district reorganization/consolidation resulting in larger secondary grade enrollments would probably result in more course offerings but would not affect percentage of…

This digest examines the best evidence available on mathematics achievement in rural schools and offers recommendations for further research. Findings on the mathematics achievement of secondary students are presented, based on analyses of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in 1996 and 2000, the Longitudinal Study of American…

Offers a description of 5 Southwestern institutions serving American Indian and Chicano students; Tlatelolco Field Study Center, Casa de la Raza, Farmworkers Community School, Colegio Jacinto Trevino and Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl University (DQU). (PG)

Condon, a community of approximately 950 people in central Oregon, opened its high school to 15 undergraduate secondary education students from the University of Oregon and provided them with perhaps the richest experience of their preprofessional training. (Author/BR)

Presents a brief description of the designs and strategies of three agricultural and extension education programs and three occupational training programs in lesser developed countries. Specific details of each program are presented in a summary table. (LRA)