It’s Hard

by Rebecca Schoenkopf

A third of California's agricultural workers have high school diplomas. Another third never got as far as junior high. The rest fall somewhere in between.

Project Avanzando tutors about 150 migrant workers studying for their GEDs, at eight sites across the Southland, in a rigorous six-month program funded by the federal Department of Education. They meet and study for three hours a night, three nights a week.

In this short piece, Rebecca Schoenkopf listened in on their lessons, taught by a woman who was enrolled in the program its first year, 10 years ago, and who is now going for her master's, and talked to the program's director about the unexpected strife that can occur when a woman (almost all are women) takes steps to secure her future.

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