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ERIC Number: EJ430650
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Economic Underdevelopment and Its Effects on Formal Schooling in Southern Appalachia.
DeYoung, Alan J.
American Educational Research Journal, v28 n2 p297-315 Sum 1991
The relationship between education and socioeconomic development is reviewed, and a case study of school improvement efforts in an East Tennessee school district is presented. The district and surrounding Clinch County have been economically underdeveloped throughout this century; their schools represent structural barriers for human capital and modernization theories. (TJH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Capital, Modernization, Rural Schools, School Districts, Socioeconomic Influences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Appalachia (South); Tennessee (East)