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Leonard, David – 1987
Written in French, this manual, which deals with traditional field crops, is primarily designed to help Peace Corps volunteers develop and strengthen their agricultural skills. The focus of the manual is on surveying and interpreting local agricultural environment and individual farm units, developing agricultural extension techniques and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills, Agronomy
French, Kenneth M. – 1987
Written in Spanish, this manual is designed to provide development workers with the information and tools needed to begin or to improve poultry production. Covered in the individual chapters are the following topics: the nature and scope of poultry production, assessment of local poultry selections, basic information about chickens, country…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills
Leonard, David – 1981
Written in Spanish, this manual, which deals with traditional field crops, is primarily designed to help Peace Corps volunteers develop and strengthen their agricultural skills. The focus of the manual is on surveying and interpreting local agricultural environment and individual farm units, developing agricultural extension techniques and…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills, Agronomy
Sutphin, H. Dean, Ed. – 1989
This document includes abstracts of research and development projects dealing with agricultural education that were completed in the United States between September 1, 1987, and August 31, 1988. A total of 185 research abstracts are included (71 master's papers or theses, 44 doctoral dissertations, and 70 staff studies. Thirty institutions from 27…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Agriculture
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1987
The House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families met in Nashville, Tennessee, to gather information on the education and employment futures of youth in the South. Testimony was heard from experts in education, training, and economic development. Organizations represented included universities in the region, adolescent dropout and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Literacy, Dropout Prevention, Early Parenthood
Fletcher, Richard K., Jr.; And Others – 1986
This paper compares responses of 660 teachers and 3,420 students from 36 schools (23 elementary, 4 middle, 9 secondary), located in 14 rural Tennessee counties, by school level on the Good Schools Survey instruments. Data represent teacher and student perceptions of classroom practices, support services/facilities, commitment, and goal attainment.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attitudes, Educational Environment
Behrens, Neville; And Others – 1978
Commencing in 1976, a three-phase descriptive study of southern Tasmania's Huon Valley assessed provision of educational services and outcomes of education in terms of opportunities for young people. Sources of information included: review of existing sources; a follow-up study of three groups of area school leavers (1973, 1975, and 1976);…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Community Change, Community Involvement
Marion, Robert L. – 1979
Rural education in the Southern United States is discussed in sections on the social and economic role of education, problems in Southern rural society, the importance of material resources, and concluding recommendations. Education is perceived as: improving the quality of recipients' lives; providing a ranking system which fits children into the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Apathy, Black Education
Larson, Carl H. – 1982
Intended as a sourcebook for administrators of rural Iowa schools, this report outlines the development and implementation of a school-to-work transition program for rural youth. Part 1 discusses the need and rationale for a program to facilitate the school-to-work transition. Included among the topics addressed in this discussion are an overview…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems
Lidster, Echo L. R. – 1978
Published as a record of the early development of some aspects of community adult education in the Northwest Territories of Canada, 1967-1974, the book begins with a statement of the philosophy of adult education and a listing of objectives of community adult education. The first three philosophical bases listed are: start with people where they…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, American Indian Education
Rio Salado Community Coll., AZ. – 1985
A project was conducted to deliver general educational development (GED) instruction through an audio teleconferencing system to adult students in Arizona. Using a previously existing audio teleconferencing system owned by Rio Salado Community College in Phoenix, Arizona, project staff developed a series of credit and noncredit teleconferencing…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Daily Living Skills
Scofield, Sandra – 1981
Part of an 8-state effort to study the role rural schools have played in the history of the frontier and to locate and preserve information related to country schools, this report presents information drawn primarily from interviews with 30 former country school students, board members, and rural school teachers in western Nebraska and from visits…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Centers, Cultural Education, Curriculum
Barthell, Robert J. – 1981
As an examination of the role played by rural schools in the history of the Wyoming frontier and the result of an effort to locate and preserve information related to country schools, this report is part of an eight-state research effort. Periodicals, unpublished manuscripts, school records and interviews with 19 Wyoming residents reveal details…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Centers, Cultural Education, Curriculum
Barthell, Robert J. – 1981
The history of rural education in northwestern Wyoming and the accompanying bibliography of unpublished manuscripts, periodicals, school records, and oral histories comprise part of an eight-state research effort, Country School Legacy, to study the role rural schools have played in the history of the frontier and to locate and preserve…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Community Centers, Community Schools, Cultural Education
Kimble, John W.; And Others – 1976
The Stanford Achievement Test was administered to 2,186 of the 47,045 Montana high school students to analyze whether or not school size is important in determining student achievement, and to analyze factors that affect student achievement and whether those factors vary by school size. The sample included 1,311 sophomores and 875 seniors. To…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
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