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Coughenour, C. Milton; Coleman, A. Lee – 1979
Data from 1961, 1971, and 1973 surveys of households and community "knowledgeables" focused on the subjective assesssments of the quality of life (QOL) of residents of Harlan, Perry, Whitley, and Wolfe counties in Eastern Kentucky, and assessed policy implications. Overall, residents assessed their counties favorably. They rated wages…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Problems, Community Satisfaction
Saraf, S. N. – 1980
Section 1 of this report develops the thesis that while illiteracy is deeply entrenched in certain areas of India, it is also confined to specific pockets of the population. Recognition of this fact should be the basis, according to the author, of literacy strategy. Section 2 provides a history of the levels of priority given to adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Decentralization, Developing Nations
DeYoung, Alan J. – 1991
This monograph draws on case studies of school-community partnership projects in four rural southeastern school districts in order to elaborate a thorough description of school contextual factors in the rural Southeast. In 1986, Appalachia Educational Labaoratory (AEL), one of nine federally funded research and development laboratories, received…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Context Effect, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
