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Download full textMcConnell, Beverly – 1974
An early childhood education program for children of migrant and seasonal farm workers, the project provides a supplemental tutoring program, offered outside of regular school hours, by bilingual adult paraprofessionals who are former migrants or seasonal farm workers. Composed of a "mobile" and a "stationary" program, the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Enrollment, Interstate Programs
Meyertholen, Patricia; Castro, Sylvia; Salinas, Cinthia – 2004
Overcoming the challenges of educational discontinuity that arise from the migratory lifestyle is the central focus of the Migrant Education Program. This chapter describes Project SMART (Summer Migrants Access Resources through Technology), a national distance learning program for migrant students that addresses such challenges by coordinating…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Interstate Programs
1973
Migrant coordinators from 21 Eastern Stream States attended the Eastern Regional Migrant Education Conference. These four reports briefly summarize the: State coordinators meeting, discussions on pre-K and kindergarten, Interstate Migrant Project for elementary school children, Bilingual Migrant Project, and interstate proposal considerations as…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conference Reports, Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs
McConnell, Beverly – 1978
An early education program for preschool and elementary age migrant children up through third grade, the program operates year-round sites at Connell and Moses Lake, Washington and at La Grulla, Texas designed to meet the needs of bilingual migrant children. The program aims to overcome the need for some continuity in the child's educational…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Early Childhood Education, Formative Evaluation
Flores, Merced; And Others – 1986
This report summarized the activities and recommendations of the 1985-86 National Association of State Directors of Migrant Education Secondary Committee. Committee accomplishments included defining dropouts utilizing unique characteristics of migrant students; drafting the issues paper on migrant secondary education (included in this report);…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. – 1979
In this third report the Task Force focuses on the whole child in an attempt to help all agencies--responsible for any services to migrants--improve the total range of services needed by migrant farmworkers and fishers, and thus improve the migrant child's chances for a basic education. The recommendations explore two topics new to the Task Force…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Agency Cooperation, Bilingual Education, Communications
McConnell, Beverly – 1977
Project objectives included: the children would increase their grade equivalent (GE) score in reading and math by one or more months GE for each 20 days of attendance; children dominant in Spanish would have a higher mean score in Spanish than norm group children of comparable age after 100 or more days of attendance; the children's bilingual…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Cultural Awareness, Early Childhood Education
WEY, HERBERT – 1968
TITLE III-B OF THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964 AND TITLE I OF ESEA REPRESENT THE FIRST MAJOR FINANCIAL EFFORTS DIRECTED TOWARD THE PROBLEMS OF EDUCATING MIGRANT CHILDREN. OEO HAS ESTABLISHED LITERACY CENTERS FOR ADULTS, AND MADE VOCATIONAL TRAINING AVAILABLE TO MANY MIGRANTS. THE STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION, WITH MONEY FROM ESEA, HAVE…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Consultants, Curriculum, Disadvantaged
