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Children's human rights and public schooling in the United States / edited by Julia Hall

Published
Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
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1 online resource
Additional Creators
Hall, Julia (Professor of sociology)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Introduction / Julia Hall -- Homeless Children in the United States / Valerie Polakow, Huayun Xu -- From Mandalay to Nickel City / Craig Centrie -- Burundi Refugee Students in Rural Southern Appalachia / Jessica Nina Lester, Allison Daniel Anders -- Taking Toll / Delores D. Liston, Regina Rahimi -- Breaking the Code / Virginia Batchelor, Illana Lane -- Selling the Services / Brian W. Lagotte -- Representing Failure / Keith M. Sturges -- The Game Plan / Carl E. James, Sam Tecle, Desmond Miller -- Academically Invulnerable and Resilient Hispanic Migrant Children / Encarnación Garza, Encarnación Jr. -- Funding the Right to Equal Educational Opportunity / Sue Books.
Summary
Promotion Text for Children's Human Rights and Public Schooling in the United States Julia Hall The United States tends to portray itself as a human rights leader. However, human rights concerns are confronted everyday by people in this democracy, including children. The purpose of this volume is to bring attention to the fact that against the backdrop of neoliberal expansion, serious human rights violations are taking place among children everywhere, including in the US. The daily struggles among groups of school children in the US are specifically considered here, such as children who are sorted by race, homeless children, transient children, child refugees, children as targeted by human traffickers, and/or child migrant workers. As the economy continues to constrict, more and more young people find themselves struggling to grow up on these razor thin margins of survival. Given current economic arrangements, such margins are widening. The definition of 'children's human rights' as understood in this analysis is taken directly from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child [CRC]. Here emphasis is placed on ways in which the CRC could be used to serve more effectively the needs of the most vulnerable populations of school-age children in the US and elsewhere. Public schools could be the very place where children come to understand they have rights. Unfortunately, many children do not get this information. Instead the protections stated in the CRC and the realities of the lives of so many children are often worlds apart. This volume sets out to be a part of changing this.
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ISBN
9789462091979 (electronic bk.)
9462091978 (electronic bk.)
9789462091955
9789462091962
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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