This collection offers reports on groups of children and young people largely unseen or unheard in society and its schools: homeless children, homosexual youth, immigrants, and other marginalized groups of students who are not having their needs met in today's schools. The following selections are included: (1) "Homeless Children and Their Families: The Discards of the Postmodern 1990s" (Valerie Polakow); (2) "Living with Violence: White Working-Class Girls and Women Talk" (Lois Weis and Julia Marusza); (3) "The Crisis within the Crisis: The Growing Epidemic of AIDS Orphans" (Shelley Geballe and Janice Gruendel); (4) "Immigrant Children: Art as a Second Language" (Cristina Igoa); (5) "Urban Appalachian Children: An 'Invisible Minority' in City Schools" (Kathleen Bennett deMarrais); (6) "Traditional Stories of Female Students in an Alternative School" (Linda Steet); (7) "'Before Their Time': Social Age, Sexuality, and School-Aged Mothers" (Nancy Lesko); (8) "Heterosexism, Homophobia, and the Culture of Schooling" (Richard A. Friend); (9) "Where Have All the Children Gone? The Transformation of Children into Dollars in Public Law 104-193" (Barbara Finkelstein, Reem Mourad, and Elyssa Doner); and (10) "Speaking of and against Youth" (Sue Books). Each selection contains references. (SLD)