Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

High Classroom Turnover: How Children Get Left Behind

Jun 05, 2002

When people talk about the problems with schools these days, they pay
far
too little attention to student mobility, especially among students
from
low-income families, migrant families and children in foster care,
according to this analysis by Chester Hartman. While some schools are
easing student transitions with helpful programs like a buddy system, a
sensitive intake process or reliable transfer of records, Hartman says
that local, state and federal governments should do more to improve
housing policies and other programs to help disadvantaged families
avoid
moving their children from school to school unnecessarily.
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