Publication Date
2012
Selected Works Department
Department of Early, Elementary and Reading Education
Document Type
Article
Abstract
There is evidence that children from families of migrant workers are among the most disadvantaged in term of early academic achievement. Yet there are insufficient resources allocated to research exploring the reasons that existing preschool programs are not effective in closing the gap between migrant children and other groups of children in the USA. There are some Head Start programs that migrant children have access to, but many of them offer simply care-giving functions and offer little opportunities for enrichment activities for children in preschool. This paper explores some of the barriers to engaging the preschool child effectively in educational activities.
File Name
Mathur003_FT
Recommended Citation
Mathur, Smita, "School readiness for young migrant children: The challenge and the outlook" (2012). Selected Works. 781.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/selectedworks/781
