Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social MovementRoutledge, 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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... increased inequality , and deepened and expanded poverty in the U.S. and many other countries as well . The years leading up to the economic collapse , during which the financial sector was let loose to graze freely on people's ...
... increasing ine- quality and joblessness I described in 2005. In order to mount a successful social movement against the banks and hedge funds, and the politicians who so often seem beholden to them, we need to understand what caused the ...
... increasing number of neighborhoods of concentrated poverty there. A number of social scientists concerned about poverty have investigated the unequal distributions of public and private investment, production, labor, and housing markets ...
... increased educational opportunity for immigrant families in the form of kinder- gartens, vacation schools, night schools, social settlement programs, and libraries. As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, “Head Start”—a radical ...
... increased funding to pay for resources , new programs , and school buildings . Sometimes these reforms work to make urban schools less stressful , disturbing places — and achievement scores may tick upwards . But if truth be told ...
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PART II Federal Policies that Maintain Poverty | 27 |
PART III Metro Area Inequities | 89 |
PART IV Social Movements New Public Policy and Urban Educational Reform | 127 |
Bibliography | 188 |
Index | 223 |