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Download full textDunkelberger, John E.; Soderberg, Mary A. – 1980
In order to investigate the relationship between 7 school system characteristics and student achievement test scores in the 45 metropolitan and 82 nonmetropolitan Alabama school systems, 1979 California Achievement Test combined battery scores for 8th and 12th grade students attending each system in the state were analyzed. For both metropolitan…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Black Students, County School Districts
Horejsi, Charles R. – 1978
Strategies and techniques for developing community-based programs for mentally retarded persons in rural areas must take into consideration local circumstances, resources, and characteristics. Rural norms such as overt racial segregation, social conformity, the importance of church, and the stigma of obtaining human services for personal problems…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Programs
Miller, Carol F. – 1975
This syllabus introduces the purposes and organization of a course on Popular Culture as evidence of American civilization offered at Meramec Community College. The guide first presents a rationale for the study of popular culture and then lists course requirements; discusses techniques such as comparative analysis and psychoanalytic investigation…
Descriptors: American Culture, Architecture, Bibliographies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Hatfield, Weston – 1979
In an effort to understand the role of the arts in small Illinois communities, a broad exploratory study was conducted in nine counties to determine what potential arts audiences want, what local arts resources offer, and what arts programming strategies are suggested by the gaps between the two. Organizational representatives and individuals…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Arts Centers, Clubs, Community Attitudes
CHARLES, EDGAR B. – 1968
THE PHENONMENON OF RURALITY OCCURS ALONG A RURAL-URBAN CONTINUUM, WITH THE DEGREE OF RURALITY DEPENDING UPON ENVIRONMENTAL, OCCUPATIONAL, AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS. A HIGH DEGREE OF RURALITY IS LIKELY TO EXIST IN AREAS WHERE POPULATION CENTERS DO NOT EXCEED 2,500 PERSONS, OCCUPATIONS ARE PRIMARILY BASED ON NATURAL RESOURCE AND/OR LAND…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Community Benefits
Voth, Donald E., Comp.; And Others – 1977
The result of extensive research by the Southern Rural Development Center Functional Network on Citizen Participation in Rural Development, this bibliography contains 2,310 citations on citizen participation, 530 of which carry an annotation or abstract. Materials come from computerized information services, published bibliographies, and books or…
Descriptors: Administration, Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Books
Mueller, E. W. – 1971
ASCILOS, an acronym for a symbiotic community in the land of the Sioux, is a new land settlement pattern designed by the Center for Community Organization and Area Development (CENCOAD), sponsored by Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ASCILOS covers a 60-mile radius around Sioux Falls. ASCILOS, based on symbiosis in nature, assumes that…
Descriptors: Church Role, Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Community Attitudes
Stinner, William F.; And Others – 1976
The transformation of the educational and labor force role distribution of Filipino women, both absolutely and relative to Filipino men, under the impact of modernization was examined. The study aimed to: analyze differences in female educational and labor force role distributions by modernization level; compare the female educational and labor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Age, Census Figures
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 2001
To learn what happens to children and families who come into contact with the child welfare system, the Children's Bureau of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families has undertaken the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW). As part of this longitudinal study of the characteristics, needs, experiences, and outcomes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agencies, Agency Cooperation, Child Welfare
Nadel, Wendy; Sagawa, Shirley – 2002
This report draws on research, statistics, and the voices of rural young people to document the extent and causes of rural child poverty, and related problems and reasons for hope in specific focus areas. About 2.5 million rural children are chronically poor. Rural poverty is concentrated in central Appalachia, the deep South, the U.S.-Mexican…
Descriptors: Brain Drain, Child Health, Child Welfare, Children
Weber, Bruce A., Ed.; Duncan, Greg J., Ed.; Whitener, Leslie A., Ed. – 2002
The 16 chapters in this five-part book, each by different authors, trace the effects of welfare reform (mandated by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996), upon poor people in rural areas of the United States. The book begins with an introduction called "As the Dust Settles: Welfare Reform and Rural…
Descriptors: Adults, Compliance (Legal), Economic Impact, Employer Attitudes
Danzig, Arnold; Vandegrift, Judith A. – 1994
Resources available to Arizona through the School-to-Work Opportunities Act will not be concentrated in rural communities, although their educational and economic development needs are proportionately greater. Absent from education reform bills pending in the Arizona House and Senate is any reference to school-to-work transition or any explicit…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Education Work Relationship
Newton, Earle, Ed.; Knight, Doug, Ed. – 1993
This book consists of 13 essays focusing on successful developments in education in rural and remote regions across Canada. Essays examine the integration of local or Aboriginal culture into education, need for educational partnerships between parents and schools, importance of distance education in meeting the educational needs of rural students,…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Change Strategies, Cultural Influences
Rural Development Perspectives, 1995
This special theme issue reports key results from a comprehensive assessment of skill development among the rural workforce and of rural education and job training in rural areas. This comprehensive assessment had three goals: to develop better measures of rural skills than were previously available, to identify human capital initiatives that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Dropouts, Educational Attainment
MDC, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC. – 1996
This report analyzes 30-year trends in population, jobs, income, poverty, and education in the South, including comparisons to national trends and projections for the year 2010. The report aims to document the South's success in overcoming poverty and discrimination, draw attention to barriers that block further economic progress, and make…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Census Figures, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment
