Mike Nichols Rural, urban teens more similar than you think By MIKE NICHOLS of the Journal Sentinel staff Monday, March 6, 2000 Is a boy growing up on a farm outside Kewaskum more likely to get high than a...

Rural Racism, edited by Neil Chakraborti and Jon Garland, Portland, OR: Willan Publishing, 2004. 224 pages. $55.00 (hardback). ISBN 1-84392-056-5. This is a wonderful book! Chakraborti and Garland have captured every nuance of invisibility minorities can experience in rural America. For some minorities...

Democrat John Edwards touted his ties to rural America on Thursday and promised anew to fight powerful special interests he says "are stealing your children's future."Edwards opened his latest Iowa campaign swing with stops in heavily Republican and rural western Iowa, talking up proposals to...

Rural students perform better in science than their urban counterparts, and rural teachers are generally happy with their schools, a federal study says.While many education reports examine urban issues, this Education Department study provides a snapshot of what's happening in rural schools. In all, about...

The different experiences of groups, such as youth and travelers, in rural areas. Children you grow up in rural areas and travelers to these areas ofte experience these areas as idyllic. However, this is a stereotype and rural areas are not as sheltered as many think.