Invisible Children in the Society and Its Schools (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education) (Sociocultural, Political, and Historical Studies in Education)
Edition: 3 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Published: September 11, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780805859379
Subjects: Child welfare; Education; Multicultural studies; Social Science; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Sociology; United States; USA; Children's Studies; Education / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Social Science / Sociology / General; Sociology - General; Children with social disabilities; Teenagers with social disabilities
First sentence: In The Waterworks, E. L. Doctorow's narrator describes the world of the "street rats," the destitute children of New York City in the late 1800s, before the advent of the Progressive era and 50 years prior to the New Deal and the signing of the Social Security Act, which guaranteed legal entitlement to public assistance for all poor children.