Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement
Routledge, 14/03/2014 - 244 من الصفحات
The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail. With every chapter thoroughly revised and updated, this edition picks up where the 2005 publication left off, including a completely new chapter detailing how three decades of political decisions leading up to the “Great Recession” produced an economic crisis of epic proportions. By tracing the root causes of the financial crisis, Anyon effectively demonstrates the concrete effects of economic decision-making on the education sector, revealing in particular the disastrous impacts of these policies on black and Latino communities.
Going beyond lament, Radical Possibilities offers those interested in a better future for the millions of America’s poor families a set of practical and theoretical insights. Expanding on her paradigm for combating educational injustice, Anyon discusses the Occupy Wall Street movement as a recent example of popular resistance in this new edition, set against a larger framework of civil rights history. A ringing call to action, Radical Possibilities reminds readers that throughout U.S. history, equitable public policies have typically been created as a result of the political pressure brought to bear by social movements. Ultimately, Anyon’s revelations teach us that the current moment contains its own very real radical possibilities.
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... housing and transportation policies that segregate low-income workers of color in urban areas, and industrial and ... but perhaps policies that maintain high levels of urban poverty and segregation should be part of the educational ...
Today, metropolitan regions are characterized by population growth, extensive inequality, and segregation. More than half of all poor people live in fiscally stressed suburbs or towns outside the central city, with an increasing number ...
concentrated poverty outside the central core also suggests that coalitions between inner cities and urbanized, segregated suburbs could produce powerful political constituencies for education and other reform.
As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, “Head Start”—a radical innovation by activists in Jackson, Mississippi, these issues moved to center stage in federal educational policy—segregation of blacks in public schools became illegal.
The elimination of economic, housing, and other public policies responsible for urban poverty and segregation must become companion goals of urban educational reform. Moreover, we need to contemplate the strategic strength that will be ...
ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
The Economic is Political
Federal Policies That Keep People Poor
Income Wealth and Taxes
New Hope for Urban Students
Metro Areas and the Regional Geography of Poverty Job and Public
Housing Reform as Education Reform
Regional and Local Challenges to Inequity
Social Movements New Public Policy and Urban Educational
Building a Social Movement
Putting Educators at the Center of a Social Movement for Economic