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

• Superior document: Constructing knowledge, v.5
• TeilnehmendeR: Hall, Julia.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed. 2013.
• Language: English
• Series: Constructing knowledge ; v.5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

""Children�s Human Rights and Public Schooling in the United States""; ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 1, INTRODUCTION: School Children in Serious Need of Rights""; ""BRIEF BACKGROUND ON THE UNITED NATIONS""; ""OTHER TRANSNATIONAL POLICY NETWORKS""; ""CRC BACKGROUND & STRUCTURE""; ""STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE CRC""; ""THE CRC & THE US""; ""CONNECTIONS TO SCHOOL CHILDREN""; ""VOLUME STRUCTURE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 2: Homeless Children in the United States: Dispossession and Rights Foreclosed""; ""POVERTY AND RIGHTS""

""CRITICAL MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF HOMELESSNESS IN THE US""""Homelessness in the Great Depression""; ""Homeless Children""; ""Public Policies, Homelessness, and the Role of Government""; ""HOMELESSNESS AND THE MAKING OF DEMOCRACY'S DISCARDS""; ""Snapshots of Homelessness""; ""Tenuous Lives""; ""The Impact of Homelessness on Mothers and Children""; ""Homelessness and Social Toxicity""; ""Disrupted Schooling""; ""Unaccompanied Youth and Runaways""; ""HOMELESSNESS AND CHILDREN�S RIGHTS""; ""REFERENCES""

""CHAPTER 3: From Mandalay to Nickel City: Exploring the Changing Identities and Struggles of Karen Burmese Youth""""INTRODUCTION""; ""A NOTE ON METHODOLOGY""; ""MAKING A NEW LIFE""; ""COMMUNITY CONFLICT""; ""A BETTER FUTURE""; ""DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 4: Burundi Refugee Students in Rural Southern Appalachia: On the fast track to Special Education""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE CONTEXT""; ""A POSTCRITICAL ORIENTATION""; ""THE TARGET AS “REFUGEE�""; ""THE TARGET AND SPECIAL EDUCATION""; ""NARRATIVE RETELLINGS""; ""ONE ACT""

""CONCLUDING THOUGHTS: FAILURES AND PRIVILEGED SHARINGS""""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 5: Taking Toll: The Impact of Sexual and Gender Harassment on the Lives of Middle and High School Students""; ""EXPERIENCES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AMONG FEMALE STUDENTS""; ""EXPERIENCES OF HARASSMENT AMONG MALE STUDENTS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 6: Breaking the Code: Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking and School Children""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""METHODOLOGY""; ""DMST WITHIN THE US""; ""CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUNG DMST VICTIMS""; ""THE SEX TRADE AS A GROWING MARKET""

""EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF DMST AND RECOMMENDATIONS""""CONCLUSION""; ""Appendix: Select Human Trafficking Terminology""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 7: Selling the Services :Military Recruiting and Education Policy""; ""ADVERTISING TOOLS""; ""“PENETRATING� THE SCHOOL MARKET""; ""STUDENT PROFILE DATABASE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""CHAPTER 8: Representing Failure: The Depiction of Low-Income, Mexican-American Students in School-Based Program Evaluation""; ""EVALUATION AS OFFICIAL RECORD AND GOVERNANCE APPARATUS""; ""CONCEPTUAL ORIENTATION""

""COLLEGE PREPARATION NOW FROM CONCEPT TO DEPICTION""