For use by teachers, administrators, and counselors in working with rural secondary students who are ineligible for special services, the Unsatisfactory Grade Adjustment Plan (UGAP) is described as a conference tool for charting and pinpointing student behaviors leading to unsatisfactory grades. (JW)

Describes the National Assessment of Educational Progress Model and outlines and advocates its application in research on rural social studies. Notes its usefulness in assessment situations. Explains how the model will produce data descriptive of a target population and will permit the comparison of local and national results. (SB)

Rural education research has been misunderstood, underfunded, and discouraged, and the resulting collection of work has suffered for it, according to many observers. Various studies--notably, analyses by the U.S. Department of Education itself--identify significant deficiencies in the national body of research on rural schools. Now the federal…

Traditional university adult education is seen as catering for the elite in contrast to a university radio study group campaign which proved far more effective in reaching the less well educated and financially insecure rural inhabitants of Tanzania, and which promises to help break down social strata rather than reinforce them. (Author/KP)

The need for a better understanding of the value of adult education and its significance to successful rural development in Nigeria is urged in this article. (Author)

UNESCO, through member countries, is stimulating implementation of vocational education in agriculture at several levels. (Editor)

Schools of education must refine factual and theoretical information to the point where it is applicable to specific problems. (NQ)

Argues that rural community education must evolve into a system that is community-based, process-oriented, and accountable to the community. (Author/MF)

Discusses how extension programs have helped improve agricultural production, home surroundings, and youth development of the Ute Indians in Utah. (RB)

Traces the historical development of trends in relation to the division of subjects; differences in the instructional programmes of urban and rural institutes; and the problems of instructional programmes. Charts. (RB)

Describes the results of a study to determine the relationship of various social and personal factors to adjustment and to identify the attitudes, values and motivations which either facilitate or retard adjustment. Provides guidelines for planning adult education programs to revitalize the rural people in war affected areas. (RB)

Raises concern that agribusiness programs may be initiated at the expense of production agriculture and student needs. (SB)