LATINO FOSTER CHILDREN

Latino Foster Children as a sub-group in the educational system

Latino Foster Children as a sub-group in the educational system

Introduction

In accordance with Phyllis Hunter, a nationally recognized educational consultant in the field of literature, "the new civil right." Literacy is the key that will allow us to access our rights as nations, including the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Among this new emphasis on literacy and increase its visibility as a national political agenda, reading experts continue to study "best" way to teach children to read. In addition, the cry of scientifically based research that supports instructional strategies loud. Thus, social, educational, and legislative influences converge as teachers are asked to "no child left behind" in our efforts to ensure that all children with the literacy skills necessary to be successful in this new millennium.

Problem Statement

This document is an attempt to explore one such convergence of forces. Although much is known about teaching reading and the acquisition of literacy skills, there are subgroups of students, who typically are excluded from the study on which our understanding of the reading process is based. These students, who for many reasons, to conduct a limited time at one school that the impact of reading intervention is difficult to determine. They are probably the students included in the depletion of reading and other educational research. In the literature, these children and youth, known as "high mobility students."

Discussion

Mobility can result from positive changes, such as job promotions, or it can be the result of challenges the students and their families are experiencing, such as domestic violence or poverty. This paper will focus on the second group—those students for whom mobility results from stressors in life. Additionally, while students who are highly mobile span the age range from preschool through high school, our discussion is limited to early literacy and elementary school-aged students(Esser 2006).

Theoretical Approaches

The importance of considering levels of incorporation for each model, and in this sense the concepts of assimilation and integration may coincide in their ambiguity, as both may be referring to a type of incorporation of socio-economic and even cultural, which contains different fields of understanding. However, it is important to note that each theoretical perspective is tilted to a field or another according to their interest. Portes for example, analyzes the economic and basically it was not until the proposal is segmented assimilation when considering cultural aspects, however, directing its analysis to the perspective of economic assimilation. Apart from this difference, the three concepts can be discussed, and methodological strategies from which levels of analysis involves taking into account the consideration that, even when we talk only of cultural assimilation, this does not occur linearly, but , it may be "disorderly" or diachronically. Thus, it is worthwhile to consider whether "all immigrants acculturate or assimilate even? (Esser 2006)

A final point that I could mention, (although there are many more), is the differentiation that we can do in terms of ways to incorporate a model to ...