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 -- SITES OF CONCEPTUALIZATION, MONITORING, AND OVERSIGHT -- SITE OF IMPLEMENTATION (AND CENTER OF DEPICTION) -- EVALUATION NARRATIVE AND THE POWER OF DEPICTION -- EVALUATION REPORTING, READING, AND OBJECTIVES -- The Professional Development Story -- Payne Comes to Town -- Building Classes -- Summarizing Representation -- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9: The Game Plan: How the Promise of US Athletic Scholarships Shapes the Education of Black Canadian Youth -- THE EDUCATIONAL SITUATION OF AFRICAN CANADIAN STUDENTSWITH A FOCUS ON TORONTO -- SPORT, SCHOOLING, AND EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT:THE CASE OF TWO FORMER HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES -- Sam Tecle -- Desmond Miller -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 10: Academically Invulnerable and Resilient Hispanic Migrant Children -- STRESSORS: SOCIO-CULTURAL VARIABLES -- ROLE OF THE MIGRANT FARM WORKER -- THE MIGRANT CHILD'S EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE -- SCHOOL LIFE AND EXPERIENCES OF PARTICIPANTS -- Belinda Magallán -- Sonia Rodriguez -- Benito García -- PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: PERSONAL RESOURCES.

SUPPORT: ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES -- DEBUNKING DEFICIT THINKING -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11: Funding the Right to Equal Educational Opportunity: An Overview and Call to Follow the Money -- PUBLIC SCHOOLS, STILL SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL -- 'Is School Funding Fair?' -- A ROLE FOR THE COURTS? -- The Case for Comprehensive Educational Opportunity -- A Counter-Argument: Protecting the Suburbs -- GIVE BACK AND PAY FORWARD -- CONCLUSION: FOLLOW THE MONEY -- Court Cases Cited -- REFERENCES.