U.S. Department of Education: Promoting Educational Excellence for all Americans - Link to ED.gov Home Page
Migrant Education Resource Center





New Documents

LOGIN



Forgot Password?


Register Now.
PAGE OPTIONS
Training and Technical Assistance

Welcome

to the Web site for the Migrant Education Resource Center (MERC)! The MERC Web site provides migrant educators with resources and information to create a community of practitioners for the tasks of program administration and implementation. All the site components were created for a common point of focus for documents and training pertinent to the MEP and a mechanism for problem-solving and professional development.

What's New

New Articles

Job Postings

There are no recent job postings.

About Us

The Center for Human Services (CHS) of Bethesda, Maryland, is the home of the Migrant Education Resource Center. With over 40 years’ experience assisting government and private sector clients to design, operate, and evaluate programs, CHS has wide-ranging expertise in a number of areas critical to the successful development and implementation of MERC.



Peer-to-Peer Network
View Resources By Location
LATEST NEWS

Perspective - Natural, Not National, Rights (Immigration Portal)
Somewhere in my reading about immigration I encountered the deceptively simple point that it’s not immigration we should be talking about but migration. That’s another way of saying the focus has been on “us,” when it should be on the people coming to the United States .


Teaching migrant children sows challenges, reaps rewards (New York Teacher)
Children of migrant workers learn patience as their first lesson. They sometimes wait for hours with their older siblings at the edge of a field as their parents finish the day's work picking crops or caring for dairy herds.


Another Puppet Ruler USA 11/16 (Indymedia Chiapas)
'Twas an attempt by the media over the past few years to drive people insane over the matter of putting another "puppet ruler" in the White House to be manipulated by the ever-growing private army of Zion's Secrect Police; i.e. Secret Service, which must number @ 120,000 by now.


RATE THIS ARTICLE (Crosswalk.com)
ISTANBUL (Compass Direct News) – In this Turkish city’s working-class neighborhood of Kurtulus, Arabic can be heard on the streets, signs are printed in the Arabic alphabet and Iraqis congregate in tea shops.


Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report (AllAfrica.com)
allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience


REGION: Election raises new questions about immigration (North County Times)
Now that a new president has been elected, the local and national debate over immigration reform appears to be edging toward easing harsh enforcement efforts and possibly legalizing millions of illegal immigrants.


China's growth threatened by social divide-report (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters BEIJING, Nov 16 (Reuters) - China's growth prospects are increasingly clouded by a gap between rich and poor that is deterring consumption and dragging down productivity, said a report released on ...


Four win UI diversity awards (The Daily Iowan)
UI graduate student Jimmy Reyes' journey to the UI hasn't been ordinary - there were detours for the Peruvian through Chile and Florida before he finally arrived. "Anything you put your mind to, just go ahead and do it," he said. "If you have a passion for helping others, do it, even if it seems like a big challenge."


Video: The Advertising Council and HHS' AdoptUsKids Launch New PSAs to Encourage Adoption of Teens from Foster Care (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Advertising Council, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families and AdoptUsKids, announced today the launch of a new series of public service advertisements designed to raise awareness about teens who are in foster care and waiting for "forever families" to adopt them.


Iraqi Woman Awarded for Rights Work (OneWorld)
OneWorld.net's take: Three courageous women were honored Tuesday for advancing women's rights in their respective countries.


View All the Latest News

Site Map  |  About Us  |  Frequently Asked Questions  |  Plug-Ins  |  Contact Us
FOIA  |  Privacy  |  Security  |  Notices  |  Whitehouse.gov  |  ExpectMore.gov  |  USA.gov  |  GovBenefits.gov  |  Results.gov

The Migrant Education Resource Center (MERC) is funded by the U.S. Department of Education,
Office of Migrant Education under Contract Number ED-06-CO-0094.

This website is developed by the Center for Human Services (CHS) and its sub-contractors Social & Health Services, Ltd., EnCompass, and Support Services International (SSI).

Last Modified: 11/13/2008