CHILDREN: FROM RIGHTS TO CITIZENSHIP - Felton Earls A HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD - Paula S. Fass MULTIGENERATIONAL CITIZENSHIP: THE IMPORTANCE OF RECOGNIZING CHILDREN AS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS - Geraldine Van Bueren PUBLIC POLICIES AND CHILD RIGHTS: ENTERING THE THIRD DECADE OF THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD - Marta Mauras THE PROMISE OF CITIZENSHIP FOR BRAZILIAN CHILDREN: WHAT HAS CHANGED? - Irene Rizzini RATIFICATION BY THE UNITED STATES OF THE CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: THE PROS AND CONS FROM A CHILD'S RIGHTS PERSPECTIVE - Elizabeth Bartholet CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A STATISTICAL PORTRAIT BY RACE-ETHNICITY, IMMIGRANT ORIGINS, AND LANGUAGE - Donald J. Hernandez, Nancy A. Denton, and Victoria L. Blanchard CHILDREN AND RIGHTS OF CITIZENS: NONDOMINATION AND INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE - James Bohman THE CHILD AS DEMOCRATIC CITIZEN - Andrew Rehfeld TO BE (COME) OR NOT TO BE (COME): UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN'S CITIZENSHIP - Allison James PARTICIPATORY NICHES FOR EMERGENT CITIZENSHIP IN EARLY ADOLESCENCE: AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE - Judith Torney-Purta and Jo-Ann Amadeo AMERICAN SIXTEEN- AND SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLDS ARE READY TO VOTE - Daniel Hart and Robert Atkins ADOLESCENTS AS DELIBERATIVE CITIZENS: BUILDING HEALTH COMPETENCE IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES - Mary Carlson and Felton Earls PROMOTING CHILDREN'S CAPACITIES FOR ACTIVE AND DELIBERATIVE CITIZENSHIP WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES: THE CADE PROJECT IN COSTA RICA - Clotilde Fonseca and Maria Eugenia Bujanda