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Download full textJones, Sue H., Ed. – 1989
Problems in federal rural policy arise in a number of areas: the extreme economic adversity of rural America, failure to acknowledge the higher cost of providing rural services, failure to distinguish between rural programs and agriculture programs, and failure to address specific rural needs. Papers in this collection examine rural development…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Change Strategies, Economic Change, Economic Development
Castle, Emery, Ed.; Baldwin, Barbara, Ed. – 1989
The National Rural Studies Committee seeks to identify important rural problems and encourage scholarly work on such problems. This annual meeting focused on the relationships between rural poverty and race relations and between rural and urban problems. Individual papers are: (1) "The Rural South as Seen by a Historical Geographer," by…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Labor Force Development
Heenan, Barbara; St. John, Mark; Broun, Samantha; Howard, Michael; Becerra, Ana – 2001
A conference brought together the leaders of the 11 projects funded by the National Science Foundation's Rural Systemic Initiative (RSI) to reflect upon their efforts to improve mathematics and science education in poor rural communities. A variety of themes emerged. The RSI projects serve small, rural communities suffering from decades of…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Cooperation, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Attitudes
