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Su, Zhixin; Dunlap, Jody; Xia, Huixian; Wang, Jian; Mao, Dan – Frontiers of Education in China, 2019
This paper reports findings from a comparative study of urban vs. rural school principals in China. It is an extension and replication of an earlier study on the profiles and preparation of school leaders in the US and China. The study illustrates modern portraits--demographic characteristics of urban and rural principals in China, explores their…
Descriptors: Principals, Comparative Analysis, Rural Schools, Urban Schools
Kagitcibasi, Cigdem; Biricik, Duygu – Intelligence, 2011
In 1977 Draw-a-Person test was administered to fifth grade school children in a city and its surrounding rural villages in Turkey. In 2010, more than thirty years later, the test was administered again to a corresponding group of fifth grade children in the same locations. It is rare that we get scores from the "same" population over a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligence Tests, Intelligence Quotient, Grade 5
Clarke, Egerton – Educational Gerontology, 2011
Much research examines the professional nursing practices of traditional and modern caregivers, but it remains unclear whether the delivery of extra-required services is diminished as the caregiver moves from traditional to modern community. Building on the classical works of sociologists Ferdinand Tonnies, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim, this…
Descriptors: Nurses, Caregivers, Foreign Countries, Nursing Education
Glasgow, Nina; Brown, David L. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
This paper examines rural population ageing in the United States with a particular focus on the contrasting contexts in which older rural residents live. We compare the characteristics of the older population by rural versus urban residence, and explore challenges and opportunities associated with the ageing of rural baby boomers. The United…
Descriptors: Well Being, Rural Areas, Baby Boomers, Rural Development
Hansen, Mette Halskov; Woronov, T. E. – Comparative Education, 2013
The Chinese government is pouring resources into building vocational education at all levels of the Chinese educational system. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in three vocational secondary schools in 2007-2012, this article compares rural and urban schools to highlight the persistent urban-rural divide in implementing vocational…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Vocational Education
Beesley, Andrea; Moore, Laurie; Gopalani, Sarah – Regional Educational Laboratory Central, 2010
This report describes the extent and distribution of student mobility in five Central Region states. The study, which calculated student mobility percentages in each state and compared percentages by locale (city, suburb, town, and rural locale, and degree of rurality) within each state, found no consistent patterns across locales. Research…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Municipalities, Suburbs, Rural Areas
National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
This report provides selected results for South Dakota's public school students at grades 4 and 8 from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessment in reading. Results are reported by average scale scores and by achievement levels (Basic, Proficient, and Advanced). Key findings in grade 4 include: (1) Grade 4: In 2013, the…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Public Schools, Grade 4, Grade 8
Sankaranarayanan, Anoop; Carter, Gregory; Lewin, Terry – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2010
Rural versus urban rates of suicide in current patients of a large area mental health service in Australia were compared. Suicide deaths were identified from compulsory root cause analyses of deaths, 2003-2007. Age-standardized rates of suicide were calculated for rural versus urban mental health service and compared using variance of…
Descriptors: Health Services, Intervals, Mental Health Programs, Mental Health
Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Trinder, Krista M.; Gokavi, Tara N. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2010
Although cultural and subcultural differences during the transition to adulthood have been examined, important factors like rural/urban upbringing and gender differences among Canadian emerging adults have been neglected. The present study explored developmentally significant tasks including criteria for adulthood, beliefs about religiosity, and…
Descriptors: Smoking, Adolescents, Gender Differences, Rural Urban Differences
Harder, Natalie J. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
With community colleges educating up to one-half of all U.S. undergraduates, more focus on internationalization is warranted in order to ensure student competitiveness in today's global labor pool. This ex post facto study of 2006 survey data from the American Council on Education (ACE) found a low level of internationalization occurring at most…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Community Colleges, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Gagnon, Douglas; Mattingly, Marybeth J. – Carsey Institute, 2012
This brief considers whether the concentration of beginning teachers in a district is associated with the district's poverty rate, racial composition, or urbanicity. Authors Douglas Gagnon and Marybeth Mattingly report that poor communities have moderately higher percentages of beginning teachers than communities with lower poverty rates and that…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Racial Composition, Minority Group Students, Beginning Teachers
Lewin, Keith M.; Sabates, Ricardo – Online Submission, 2011
This paper explores patterns of growth in participation in six Anglophone and seven Francophone countries in SSA. The countries are Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Madagascar, Mali, Niger and Senegal. These countries all have large scale Universal Primary Education programmes and all have…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Foreign Countries, Access to Education
Glover, Louis C.; Simpson, Lynn A.; Waller, Lee Rusty – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2009
This article explores disparities in faculty salaries between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan Texas community colleges. The analysis reveals a significant difference in faculty salaries for the 2000 and 2005 academic years respectively. The study found no significant difference in the rate of change in faculty salaries from 2000 to 2005.…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Community Colleges, College Faculty, Rural Urban Differences
Addai, Isaac; Pokimica, Jelena – Social Indicators Research, 2010
In the context of decades of successful economic reforms in Ghana, this study investigates whether ethnicity influences economic well-being (perceived and actual) among Ghanaians at the micro-level. Drawing on Afro-barometer 2008 data, the authors employs logistic and multiple regression techniques to explore the relative effect of ethnicity on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Social Indicators, Economic Change
Graham, Suzanne E.; Teague, Christine – Carsey Institute, 2011
This brief examines the complex interplay of family, school, and place factors in the reading achievement levels of third grade students. Third grade reading achievement is critical to later academic and occupational success. Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the authors report that suburban children realize greater gains in…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Low Achievement, Kindergarten, Grade 3