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Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers: A Forgotten Population.
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Velazquez, Loida C. – 1990
Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are the most educationally disadvantaged group in society, with over 70% high school dropouts and 15% functionally illiterate. Mobility, language barriers, and cultural differences combined with health and nutrition problems have a negative effect on school achievement. The constant interruption of the educational…
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