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The Disappearance of "Social Capital" in Rural America: Are All Rural Children "at Risk?"
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DeYoung, Alan J. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1989
Argues that the "social capital" provided to schools by parent and community involvement has been eroded in rural areas by school consolidation, centralization, and urban models, placing all rural students at risk. Traces this erosion in one rural West Virginia school district. Contains 19 references. (SV)
Descriptors: Community Support, Consolidated Schools, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education