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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... officially from 2007 to 2009 (but continuing for most of the U.S. population in 2013 as I write this), destroyed millions of jobs, debased home values, wiped out nearly 40% of the wealth of middle-class families, collapsed employment ...
... officials first prepared the Housing and Economic Recovery Act in June 2008, and then TARP—the Troubled Asset Relief Program—that gave and lent the largest banks $700 billion so that they would have cash on hand to make loans (which ...
... officials thought], the stimulus was trying to rescue a $45 trillion economy—the value of output over three years—with a $787 billion plan, amounting to well under 2 percent of the economy's total spending over that period. Thus, the ...
... official poverty line—in 2013, $23,550 for a family of four.) The percentage of people who work full time, year round yet are poor is staggering. In 2000, at the height of a booming economy, almost a fifth of all men (19.5%), and almost ...
... official cutoffs) provides guidelines that are unrealistically low. These scholars argue that individuals and families with incomes up to 200% of government thresholds are poor. The official formula for figuring poverty—designed by ...
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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 | |