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Toward the Construction of a Federal Policy-Impact Code for Classifying the Nation's Rural School Districts. Working Paper.
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Stephens, E. Robert – 1992
Historically, policies and funding guidelines for most federal educational programs have not adequately recognized the diversity of rural schools. A dichotomy of rural and urban, or even a tripartite classification (urban, suburban, and rural), would mask the internal diversity of rural schools. Current efforts to understand the condition of…
Descriptors: Classification, Definitions, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Where Have All the Farmworkers Gone? (The Statistical Annihilation of Hired Farmworkers). An Analysis of the Federal Effort to Define and Count Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers. Research Report No. 1.
Rural America, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1977
Federal statistical services grossly underestimate the size of the farmworker population; as a result, the current federal farmworker programs (CETA, Migrant Education, Migrant Headstart, Farm Labor Housing, and Migrant Health) are unable to identify a total target population in need of services and unable to allocate funds in ways which reflect…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Census Figures, Classification, Definitions