文档介绍：本科毕业设计(论文)
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原文:
Meeting the Unique Needs of the Children of Migrant Farm Workers.
The migrant population is the most undereducated major subgroup in the United States. The high school dropout rate of the children of migrant farm workers is 43 percent, higher than any other group in the United States (National Council of La Raza 1990). It is estimated that over 70 percent of migrants have pleted high school, and 75 percent are functionally illiterate (Hodgkinson 1985). Inadequate education coupled with meager language skills limit their employment potential for jobs that offer nothing more than a low hourly wage. For instance, migrant farm workers earn less than $5,000 per year (Rothenberg 1998), well short of the . median household e of $40,800 per year (. Bureau of the Census 1999) and far below the 2002 . poverty level of $18,100 for a family of four With that type of e, more than two-thirds of our nation's migrant households and roughly 75 percent of migrant children live below the national poverty line (Davis 1997). Without education, many of the estimated 800,000 migrant children will inherit their parents' occupation and lifestyle as they attempt to sustain themselves (Trotter 1992).
The reasons for the lack of education among migrant workers are many, but the migrant lifestyle's high mobility serves as the greatest impediment to educational ess. Estimat