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Center for Public Research and Leadership

2017

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The Challenges Of Supporting Highly Mobile, Military-Connectedchildren In School Transitions, Center For Public Research And Leadership, Military Child Education Coalition (Mcec) Oct 2017

The Challenges Of Supporting Highly Mobile, Military-Connectedchildren In School Transitions, Center For Public Research And Leadership, Military Child Education Coalition (Mcec)

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Military families know the drill. They know what it means to pack up and move to a different installation, a new house, a new life — often with very little notice. Military family websites and YouTube videos abound with moving checklists and how-tos for all types of families and relocations. For parents, however, it is the school transition for their children that can make a permanent change of station (PCS) especially daunting. Indeed, changing schools — educational disruption — is regularly identified by military families as the most difficult of part of moving.

At the request of the Military Child …