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Maynard, Rebecca A. – American Economic Review, 1977
Analyzes the relationship between participation in an experimental negative income tax program and the school performance of rural children, using four measures of school performance--attendance, comportment grades, academic grades, and standardized achievement test scores. Available from: Secretary, The American Economic Association, 1313 21st…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education, Guaranteed Income
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Admassie, A. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2003
Results of a household survey from rural Ethiopia indicate that rural children commonly participated in household and agricultural work from a very early age, and more than half of working children had never attended school. In the context of subsistence economies such as these, initial policy interventions should aim to make the combination of…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Attendance, Child Labor, Disadvantaged
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Pigott, Daniel A. – History of Education Quarterly, 1990
Examines the effect of the British educational scholarships created by the 1921 Corn Production Acts (Repeal). Points out that the act enabled sons and daughters of agricultural laborers to attend secondary schools in order to obtain agricultural education. Concludes that the scholarships helped the rural youth, the agricultural economy, and the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Laborers, Educational History
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Hendry, Leo B.; Reid, Marylou – Journal of Adolescence, 2000
Discusses social belonging as both a health-related goal and an antidote for emotional crises. Examines how social connectedess represents both a content and process variable in Northern Scottish young people's discussion of their health concerns. Analyses reveal both the potency of all these concerns and participants' belief that skills acquired…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Health, Health Behavior
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Squire, P. J. – Journal of Vocational Education Research, 2000
A profile of 150 out-of-school rural Botswana youth revealed most were ages 16-18, 55% female, 52% with only primary education, and 60% unemployed. The majority chose farm occupations. Problems of rural areas included lack of educational and recreational facilities, employment security, health education, and access to land. Youth clubs, vocational…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Job Training
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Nagel, Liza; And Others – Health Values: The Journal of Health Behavior, Education & Promotion, 1995
Reports a study that examined the value hierarchies of adolescent groups categorized by tobacco use (nonusers, experimenters, and heavy users). Surveys of rural 7th-12th graders indicated significant differences among the 3 groups' value priorities in areas including health, family security, and a world at peace. (SM)
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, Smoking
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Ansell, Nicola – Youth & Society, 2004
Based on case studies centered on two rural secondary schools in Lesotho and Zimbabwe, this article examines the gendered impacts of schooling on young people's transitions to adulthood. School attendance is shown first to disrupt the conventional pathways to adulthood: Young people attending school may leave home sooner than they otherwise would…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Rural Schools, Foreign Countries, Rural Youth
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Kirkpatrick Johnson, Monica; Elder, Glen H.; Stern, Michael – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2005
Rural youth in economically troubled regions develop plans for their future in a context in which opportunities for educational and occupational success generally lie elsewhere, prompting the need to migrate. This study investigates the links between rural adolescents' residential preferences and their plans for the future, perceptions of local…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Employment Opportunities, Young Adults, Adolescents
Bell, Catherine; And Others – 1982
One of four packets designed to help day care providers meet the needs of handicapped children and their parents, the booklet focuses on ways to improve communication with parents. A workshop on the topic planned by a family counselor is described, and sample publicity forms and handouts from the session are included. A list of 16 provider…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Day Care, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Bell, Catherine; Chalufour, Ingrid – 1982
One of four packets designed to help day care providers serve handicapped children and their parents, the booklet describes ways to create awareness of and positive attitudes toward handicapped children. Discussion of a 1-day workshop is followed by excerpts from writings of pediatricians and educators on the needs of children with disabilities.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Day Care, Disabilities
Affolter, Madeline R. – 1985
The document examines the nature of itinerant teaching with hearing impaired students in rural areas. The itinerant teacher's varied roles in working with teachers, administrators, parents, and students are explored. Needs skills, including mediation skills and experience in counseling, are reviewed. Suggestions are offered for interacting with…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Itinerant Teachers, Mainstreaming
Mayton, Daniel M. – 1989
Values are a central concept in understanding and predicting human behavior. Value priority differences have been shown to predict important political, social, and economic attitudes and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to identify differences and similarities among the value hierarchies of adolescents who have never tried alcohol,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Differences, Drinking
Harkness, Sara; Super, Charles M. – 1983
Recent American research has explored developmental trends in gender segregation of children's peer groups. However, it is important to differentiate systematic trends in children from systematic changes in their environments. This report, based on data gathered from 1972 to 1975, presents evidence on gender segregation in Kipsigis children's peer…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries
Fischer, Sara I. – 1985
This study analyzed the relationship between urban and rural cultures and subjects' selection of attributes and groupings in a task of equivalence formation. Participants were 236 subjects, ages 6, 12, and 17, from rural and urban Argentina and from New York City. Subjects were administered an Equivalence Task consisting of two arrays of stimuli.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Webster, Carole T. – Child Welfare, 1974
Describes how a social worker made a group treatment program a permanent part of a small, rural, junior high school in order to aid students with behavioral problems. (Author/ED)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Group Dynamics
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