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Sullivan, Kerri – National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL), 2003
This analysis addresses the role of car usage in employment outcomes such as employment status, average weekly wages, and weeks worked per year. It postulates that car ownership is an important employment tool for adults of low educational attainment in Portland, even in the context of other factors such as social networks/resources (social…
Descriptors: Motor Vehicles, Ownership, Transportation, Employment Level
Varpalotai, Aniko – 2000
Over the past century, rural girls and women have increasingly taken on leadership roles in response to rural community development concerns and farm crises threatening the very existence of family farms and surrounding communities. This paper provides a brief historical overview of the status of women in rural Canada, and then describes the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Agricultural Education, Entrepreneurship, Farmers
Pastor, Manuel, Jr.; Marcelli, Enrico A. – 2000
Racially different economic outcomes stem from multiple causes, including various "mismatches" between minority employees and available jobs. A skill mismatch occurs when individuals' education and job skills do not qualify them for existing jobs. A spatial mismatch means that people live far from the work for which they qualify. A…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Educational Needs, Educational Status Comparison
National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind, Monmouth, OR. – 1998
From July 30-August 1, 1998, eighty parents and family members from across the country attended a national workshop held in St. Louis, Missouri sponsored by the National Technical Assistance Consortium for Children and Young Adults who are Deaf-Blind and the National Family Association for Deaf-Blind. The workshop, entitled "Going for the Best:…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Community Programs, Deaf Blind
Falk, Ian – 1999
Rural areas around the world face problems stemming from the globalization of agricultural and other markets, the resulting competitiveness for existing and shifting markets, loss of population, and consequent decline of economic and social infrastructure. Rural communities need to develop the ability to manage change, and this requires engaging…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Development, Community Leaders, Foreign Countries
Kilpatrick, Sue; Bell, Rowena; Falk, Ian – 1998
The Centre for Research and Learning in Regional Australia is investigating the elements of social capital and developing a set of indicators that show when social capital is building. The indicators can be used where groups or organizations with a shared purpose engage in productive interactions that benefit not only the individual member groups…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperative Programs, Farm Management, Farmers
Marburg, Galen Sanford – White Cloud Journal, 1983
A rural, hospital-based, community mental health program at Keams Canyon Indian Hospital (Arizona) utilizes an array of remedial, developmental, and preventive strategies to respond to the unique biopsychosocial needs of the Navajo and Hopi populations. Outpatient, outreach, and aftercare programs, and development of treatment and consulting…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Consultation Programs, Cultural Influences, Delivery Systems
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McLean, Beth; Thomas, Rebecca – Child Welfare, 1996
Contrasts a group of informal kinship care providers in Philadelphia (KIDS'n'KIN Program) with two "formal" kinship care groups in Baltimore and California, examining similarities and differences in child and caregiver demographies and service needs. Presents the program's response to the needs of informal kinship care providers.…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Caregivers, Child Custody, Child Rearing
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Xie, Hongling; Swift, Dylan J.; Cairns, Beverley D.; Cairns, Robert B. – Social Development, 2002
Investigated interactional properties and developmental functions of the following four types of aggressive behaviors in adolescents: social aggression, direct relational aggression, physical aggression, and verbal aggression. Found that the majority of conflict interactions involved more than a dyad, and that social aggression was an initiating…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Aggression, Conflict
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Stevenson, Howard C. – Counseling and Values, 1990
Recommends sharing of ideas among the church and mental health systems when confronting the problem of education about teenage pregnancy in the African-American community. Specifies three decision steps in initiating dialogue between mental health educators and African-American pastors: acknowledging, networking, and developing relationships.…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Black Institutions, Church Role
Chion-Kenney, Linda – School Administrator, 1994
Women and minorities are still underrepresented in the superintendency. Search consultants can tackle discrimination by helping a school board consider desirable administrator competencies and personality traits and by advancing outstanding "nontraditional" candidates. Candidates should take consultants' advice about networking, resume…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Boards of Education, Career Planning, Consultants
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Nutting, P. Bradley – New England Journal of History, 1994
Contends that what a society does publicly to entertain itself reveals shared values. Maintains that public entertainment in Worcester (Massachusetts) prior to the War of 1812 was limited largely to Sundays, court days, and the Fourth of July. Describes changes in entertainment and social values after the War of 1812. (CFR)
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Behavior, History Instruction
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McCulloch, B. Jan; Kivett, Vira R. – Family Relations, 1995
Study sought to describe the very old living in rural areas and make predictions of survival rates of rural elders to very old age. Among the findings, very old rural adults were found most likely to live with others. Demographic and early life achievement influenced survival to very old age. (RJM)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Geriatrics, Gerontology, Old Old Adults
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Boice, Robert – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1993
A study of 88 female and minority college faculty revealed that faculty who do not adapt well experience early career turning points, usually in the first semesters. Mentoring and social networks are found to be significant in adaptation. The simple nature of the turning points suggests strategies for avoiding such marginalization. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, College Faculty, Cultural Pluralism
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Kanaiaupuni, Shawn Malia – Social Forces, 2000
Analysis of data on approximately 14,000 individuals in 43 Mexican villages examined how gender relations and expectations differentiate male and female patterns of Mexico-to-U.S. migration. Education and migration were related positively for women but negatively for men. Age, marital status, and social networks also had differential effects on…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Family Influence, Females, Human Capital
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