Foster Children and Education: How You Can Create a Positive Educational Experience for the Foster Child

Foster Children and Education: How You Can Create a Positive
Educational Experience for the Foster Child
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When it comes to succeeding in school, foster children face unique
challenges and obstacles that have them lagging behind their peers.
This kit, designed primarily for use by caseworkers and educators,
lays out those challenges and offers some simple, inexpensive lessons
and tools that can enhance the educational experience of children in
foster care. The lessons - including how to facilitate school
registration and how to increase adult attendance at parent/teacher
conferences - can be adapted for use in any community. They are drawn
from the experience of Safe and Smart, a joint project of the Vera
Institute and the New York City Administration for Children's Services
that placed caseworkers in schools to support foster children.
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