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Download full textREGAN, TIMOTHY F.; SCARTH, PETER – 1968
CURRENTLY, FEDERAL AGENCIES AND VARIOUS STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION ARE CONDUCTING LITERACY PROGRAMS AND PROGRAMS IN ESOL (ENGLISH FOR SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES) FOR SOME 1,500,000 MEXICAN-AMERICAN MIGRANT WORKERS. TO A GREAT EXTENT THESE PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN TO SOME DEGREE UNSUCCESSFUL BECAUSE THEY HAVE DISREGARDED THE LEARNER'S PSYCHOLOGICAL…
Descriptors: Educational Problems, Educational Programs, English (Second Language), Literacy Education
Villarreal, Oscar L.
Operating various programs, the Texas Migrant Council, a multi-service agency, administers assistance to migrants during their stay in their home base state, as well as on their migrant trek. Its Head Start program serves mobile migrant children from the ages of 0 to 5 and gives continuity of services by following them to the northern states…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Abuse, Early Childhood Education, Educational Programs
Texas Migrant Council, Inc., Laredo.
Since 1969 a bright yellow van with "Texas Migrant Council" painted on the side has symbolized hope for progress for thousands of Texas migrants. The van itself is a mobile school that follows migrant families out of their home base state of Texas to northern labor camps each summer. It brings with it books, teachers, health care, hot…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Alcoholism, Child Abuse, Early Childhood Education
