ABSTRACT
Nelly Moulin and Vilma Pereira 3. Schooling and “Clean Streets” in Socialist Cuba: 55
Children and the Special Period Sheryl L. Lutjens
4. The Education of Homeless Children and Youth in the United States: A Progress Report 66
James H. Stronge
Part III: Education and Social Policy for Children: The Role of the State
5. A New Paradigm for Social Change: Social Movements and the Transformation of Policy for Street and Working Children in Brazil 77
Steven J. Klees, Irene Rizzini, and Anthony Dewees 6. Dependency Served: Rhetorical Assumptions Governing the
Education of Homeless Children and Youth in the United States 99 Irving Epstein
7. Educating Homeless Children in the United States: An Overview of Legal Entitlements and Federal Protections 108
Yvonne Rafferty 8. From Discourse to Reality: A Profile of the Lives and an Estimate
of the Number of Street Children and Adolescents in Brazil 118 Fúlvia Rosemberg
9. Standards, Curriculum Reform, and the Educational Experiences of One Homeless Youngster: Some Reflections 136
Rebecca Newman and Lynn Gillespie Beck
Part IV: Case Studies of Programs for Homeless and Street Children in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba
10. Restructuring Childhood in Cuba: The State as Family 147 Sheryl L. Lutjens
11. From Church Basement to Mainstream Classroom: The Evolution of A Child’s Place in Charlotte, North Carolina 160
Maria Grace Yon and Roslyn Arlin Mickelson 12. Projeto Axé: Educating Excluded Children in Salvador 172
Fernanda Gonçalves Almeida and Inaiá Maria Moreira de Carvalho
13. Breaking the Cycle: Educating New York’s Homeless Children and Their Families 184
Ralph da Costa Nuñez 14. Projeto Semear: Equalizing Opportunities for Adolescents
at Risk in Rio de Janeiro 193 Amelia Maria Noronha Pessoa de Queiroz and Ligia Gomes Elliot
15. The “Magnet School” for the Homeless: A Worst-Case Scenario 205 Jean Anyon
16. Programa Curumim: A Program for At-Risk Children in the Industrial Heartland 214
Murilo Tadeu Moreira Silva
Part V: Marginalized Children and Youth: The Social and Educational Needs of the Most Disadvantaged Children
17. Improving Education for Homeless Students with Disabilities in the United States 225
Lori Korinek, Brenda T. Williams, Virginia L. McLaughlin, and Chriss Walther-Thomas
18. Children of Undocumented Immigrants: An Invisible Minority among Homeless Students 238
Ana Huerta-Macías, María Luisa González, and Linda Holman 19. Hungry Hearts: Runaway and Homeless Youth in the United States 247
Marc Posner 20. Civic Invisibility, Marginality, and Moral Exclusion: The Murders
of Street Youth in Brazil 257 Martha K. Huggins and Myriam Mesquita
Part VI: Conclusion
21. Children on the Streets of the Americas: Implications for Social Policy and Educational Practice 269
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson
Afterword 283 Contributors 284 Glossary 288 Index 291
