The revolution in telecommunications technology will be a driving force in the future economic growth of rural areas. Federal and state universal service policies requiring delivery of service to rural areas were major factors in how the telephone system evolved during the 20th century. In the 1990s, telephone penetration rates were similar for…

Standardized achievement tests as measures of school performance are an inescapable fact of life in U.S. public education. Critics of such tests hold that U.S. education policy has made achievement test scores more important than achievement itself. "No Child Left Behind," the centerpiece of the Bush Administration's domestic agenda, places a…

In the popular view, somehow, rural schools often just do not measure up. The world over, rural schools generally get short shrift in the allocation of resources and prestige, their lack of urbanness often a self-fulfilling indicator of deficiency. As a result perhaps, rural students may perform, on average, less well than others in terms of…

Presents the results of several studies dealing with dialect differences and offers a rationale for using the language experience approach for teaching dialectically different black children. (TO)

Discusses the new Appalachian movement, based on the assumption that mountain people are a distinct and maligned cultural minority; the people of Appalachia, white, black and red, have begun to strike back against the dam-builders, strip-miners, and others they say are gouging out the region's mineral resources by the cheapest means possible no…

Describes the West Riding Educational Priority Area Project, set up in December 1968, the purpose of which was to assess the social, educational and economic factors which might affect the children's academic performance, and to try to find ways of helping them develop their potential. (Author/JM)

The concept of the moral failure of the poor which was rooted in pre-colonial European assumptions, and modern American racism had become intimately entwined. Attitudes toward the poor in the 1960's simply reflected the knowledge, concerns, problems, and prejudices of the day. (Author)

Suggests that the major determinant of ghetto behavior and social organization is the relationship between the local population and higher level institutions; explores the failure of an organization in a ghetto area set up to destroy abandoned houses. (Author/JM)

The text of testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs concerning the participation of the San Diego Independent School District in the National School Lunch program, by the district superintendent. (JM)

In the follow-up study, most of the initial gains in IQ resulting from program participation were retained. (Authors/MB)

After defining developmental education as referring to processes that expand the physical, emotional, educational, artistic, scientific, and political spheres of diverse ethnic and cultural communities within a nation, the author discusses the case of the Loma people of Liberia. (JM)

Describes selected characteristics of a group of black disadvantaged urban migrants and discusses the factors that relate to problems of employment they face in the city. (JM)

Discusses New York's all co-op La Guardia Community College, an institution serving largely economically and educationally disadvantaged students. (HS)

Presents report of the results of a dietary survey conducted among young transients using medical services of the Waikiki Drug Clinic in Hawaii. An informal method of nutrition education is recommended. (DM)