The proceedings consist of the entire major addresses of Senator Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Steve Miller, and Walter Turner, and abbreviated versions of 29 other papers or presentations. The materials deal with a variety of rural-focused topics: women (Evelyn Hausmann); teacher career ladder plans (Paul Burden); inservice (Robert Norton, Myron Ballain, Dian Castle); Iowa's small rural districts (William Drier); Nebraska's Center for Rural Education and Small Schools (Roger Hanson and Frank Shaugnessy); curriculum development (Gerald Bailey); minority students (Ronald Lantaff); North Dakota's rural high schools (Karla Smart and Cecilia Traugh); effective schools research (Paul Nachtigal); word processing (Custer Whiteside and Janet Whiteside); energy education (Larry Enochs); serving students with disabilities (Doris Helge); evaluating administrators (Douglas Christensen); and computer technology (Custer Whiteside and Lew McGill, Jan Brandt). Additional rural-focused topics include: teacher effectiveness (Douglas Christensen, Nancy Mangano and Michael Perl); graduation requirements (Roger Baskerville); first aid emergencies (John Walker); office management (S. Sterling Troxel); Kansas principal turnover (Al Wilson and John Heim); gifted education (Allen McCune); public policy on education (Thomas Moriarty); school planning and redevelopment (Vernon Deines); public relations (Ron Ballard); school experience memory study (Barbara Bontempo and Ardeth Deay); and adult education (Sue Maes and Sandra Moore). The conference program is appended. (BRR)