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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... higher prices could no longer be supported (Baker, 2008). But what allowed and encouraged the bubble and eventual economic trauma was the extreme financalization of the U.S. economy. Financialization is typically defined as the shift of ...
... higher education, and civil rights and gender equity legislation of the 1960s and early '70s, increased access in line with the federal goals. During the “Golden Years,” as the Keynesian era is often called, inequality shrank from its ...
... steep cuts in state and local government have hit mid- and higher-wage occupations the hardest. (National Employment Law Project, 2012b; Zumbrun and Shobhana, 2011) Low wages continue to predominate and are an important cause.
... higher incomes than the U.S. guidelines are in actuality quite poor. For example, according to federal guidelines, a single mother with two children with an income one dollar higher than $19,530 in 2013 is not considered officially poor ...
... higher education to secure good wages before the Recession is the fact that over a third (33.6%) of families at or below 200% of the poverty line were headed by a worker with some college or a college degree (ibid.). And an indictment ...
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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 | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |