Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools

Reports on groups of children and young people who are largely unseen or unheard in the society and its schools. Provides basic information and analysis of social conditions in a form accessible and useful to educators.

Sue Books is an associate professor and chair of the Secondary Education Department at SUNY at New Paltz B. McKinley Jones Brayboy is an enrolled member in the Lumbee-Cheraw tribe from North Carolina. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Education, Culture, and Society and the Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Utah Diane Duggan is a licensed psychologist and dance therapist who works for the New York City Board of Education's Citywide Office of Clinical and Guidance Services Gloria Filax is a post-doctoral fellow in secondary education at the University of Alberta, Canada Carrie Freie is a graduate student in the sociology of education program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at SUNY Buffalo Eliza Garfield completed a doctorate at Harvard's Graduate School of Education in 2000. Her academic area of interest is religion and the role it plays in U.S. social history and in shaping U.S. identity and definitions today Bram Hamovitch is an assistant professor of sociology at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, Ohio Cristina Igoa is a faculty member of Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California David Lee Keiser prepares student teachers and teaches education courses at Montclair State University Nancy Lesko teaches courses on curriculum, gender and sexuality, youth studies, and qualitative research at Teachers College, Columbia University Jamie Lew is an assistant professor at Rutgers University, in Newark, New Jersey Warren Marcus teaches social foundations at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York Jane Fowler Morse is an associate professor in the Department of Education at SUNY Geneseo Valerie Polakow is Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Child and Family Programs at the Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Communities at Eastern Michigan University Christina Safiya Tobias-Nahi has worked at Harvard University for more than 4 years, first with the Islamic Legal Studies Program and more recently with the Civil Rights Project Lois Weis is a professor of the sociology of education at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York