FMR 60 - Educating unaccompanied children in US shelters

Educational services provided to unaccompanied children in government-funded shelters in the US must be examined more critically in order to better meet the children’s varied needs – and federal standards for public education.

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Education is one of the most important aspects of our lives – vital to our development, our understanding and our personal and professional fulfilment throughout life. In times of crisis, however, millions of displaced young people miss out on months or years of education, and this is damaging to them and their families, as well as to their societies, both in the short and long term. This issue of FMR includes 29 articles on Education, and two ‘general’ articles. FMR 60 contains 29 articles on ‘Education: needs, rights and access in displacement’, plus two ‘general’ articles on other topics. See more at: www.fmreview.org/education-displacement.