Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ443964
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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How Demographic Trends for the Eighties Affect Rural and Small-Town Schools.
Stern, Joyce D.
Educational Horizons, v70 n2 p71-77 Win 1992
Economic restructuring, low wages, unemployment, outmigration, and high poverty rates affect rural and small-town schools, which enroll nearly 40 percent of the school-age population. Increasing proportions of rural school enrollments are children at risk and in need of special programs. (SK)
Descriptors: Economic Change, Enrollment, Migration, Population Trends, Poverty, Rural Areas, Rural Schools, Small Schools
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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