Keeping uprooted kids in school



 



In this fall's second audio documentary, Students on the Move, we look at repeatedly uprooted children, who are more likely to struggle in school and more likely to drop out. (Listen on the Educate podcast feed.) On the web, we examine two groups of affected students ...


The growing crisis of homeless kids


They sleep in cars, motels and relatives' houses, and they're more likely to drop out of school and spend their lives in poverty. Due to the lack of affordable housing, the U.S. has more of these children than ever before.

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The children in the fields


Thanks to a loophole in U.S. child labor laws, farmworker kids can pick crops as young as age 10. But education offers a path out of poverty, if the kids can stay in school.

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