Ethics and Students with Disabilities from Migrant Farmworker Families

Frequent school changes, cultural and linguistic isolation, low parental academic attainment, poor health conditions, and extreme poverty have consistently placed migrant students among the group of students in the United States most at risk for educational and occupational failure. The heart of tho...

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Published inRural special education quarterly Vol. 27; no. 1/2; p. 24
Main Authors Cranston-Gingras, Ann, Paul, James L
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Morgantown Sage Publications Ltd 01.12.2007
Subjects
Cultural differences
Decision making
Educational Attainment
Educational Development
Educational Needs
English language
Ethics
Farmworkers
Linguistics
Migrant Children
Migrant Education
Migrant Programs
Migrant workers
Poverty
Rural schools
School districts
School systems
Special education
Students with disabilities
Working conditions
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Summary:Frequent school changes, cultural and linguistic isolation, low parental academic attainment, poor health conditions, and extreme poverty have consistently placed migrant students among the group of students in the United States most at risk for educational and occupational failure. The heart of those deliberations, in our opinion, should be to guarantee an appropriate education for these students that rises to three standards: 1 democratic, offering participation, voice, and agency that are socially empowering, 2 caring, providing a context within which individual students are welcomed and their identity and needs are acknowledged and respected, and 3 effective, insuring the presence of, and accountability for, individualized evidence based instructional practices.
ISSN:8756-8705
2168-8605