The author moved from Guatemala to California with her mom. In this article, she talks about the challenges of learning English. She needs to learn English to take care of her mom until her "papa" comes to take care of them. If she knows English she can help her mother with the groceries and answering the phone. She can also teach her…

Condensed from "Childhood Education, Volume 45 (September 1968), 22-27.

In February 1991, policymakers and representatives of resource agencies and nonprofit organizations met to find solutions to a major regional crisis--the lack of housing for farmworkers and day laborers in San Diego County. The region contains about 200 worker camps, usually situated in undeveloped canyons and fields near suburban residential…

The social, cultural and economic issues of America's migrant farmworkers are producing an ever widening gap between the farmworker community and mainstream society. Comprehensive and coordinated efforts by public and private sectors are needed to stabilize the farm labor force and to permanently resolve the migrant farmworkers problems. The…

A study of the adjustment of migrant American Samoan families in five gateway cities (Honolulu, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle) was done with the objectives of learning about the transition experiences of the families, gaining information about the human services provided in these cities, and providing background cultural…

The California Human Development Corporation's Rural Workplace Literacy Project (RWLP) provided migrant and seasonal farmworkers with on-site workplace literacy training designed to enhance their ability to develop job skills. During 1990-91, it provided literacy classes at 15 agricultural worksites and enrolled 282 farmworkers. Of students…

As discussed in this procedural handbook, the Regional Migrant Education Demonstration Project was established in April of 1967 to evaluate the concept of regional organization as recommended in California's Plan for Migrant Education. Topics covered in the handbook include legal requirements for the establishment of the project, administrative…

The annual report of the three-county Regional Migrant Education Demonstration Project presents a narrative description of the philosophy and planning of the project, a program overview and implementation procedures and activities. The appendices contain budget information, statistical information on health services, schedules for two workshops on…