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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... employment prospects , slashed education and other public spending , 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 ...
... employment that pays poverty and near-poverty wages. Yet federal policy is determinant. Congress, to take a blatant example, set the first minimum wage in 1938 at $3.05 (in 2000 dollars). When I wrote the first edition of Radical ...
... employment since the first quarter of 1975 (Shierholz, 2009; Uchitelle, 2009). This implosion of the financial system shattered financial institutions that Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman and others have identified as an extensive ...
... employment (rather than to control interest rates and inflation, which have been the goals recently). Institutions like labor unions and labor-management relations were encouraged by enactment and implementation of supportive federal ...
... employment , the Recession destroyed many of the remaining good jobs ( those with decent pay and benefits ) . Jobs ... employment services ) added 43 % of net employment growth during that time . Better - paying industries ( like ...
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1957 | |
Federal Policies That Keep People Poor | 1972 |
Income Wealth and Taxes | 1994 |
New Hope for Urban Students | 1997 |
Metro Areas and the Regional Geography of Poverty Job and Public | |
Housing Reform as Education Reform | |
Regional and Local Challenges to Inequity | |
How do People Become Involved in Political Contention? | |
Building a Social Movement | |
Putting Educators at the Center of a Social Movement for Economic | |
Bibliography | |