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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... problems of urban education, then, we need not only school reform, but the reform of these public policies. If, as I ... problems of unemployment, joblessness, and poverty for many years. But education did not cause these problems, and ...
... imply an approach to urban problems that considers regional arrangements as in part determinant of local distress—in both neighborhoods and schools. The spread of concentrated poverty outside the central core also suggests that coalitions.
... problems that plague urban neighborhoods and schools today. Since the mid-1960s, the federal government has placed hundreds of programs in urban neighborhoods, ostensibly to ameliorate problems of poverty, unemployment, and inadequate ...
... problems we see—so we police and counsel students, provide staff development for the teachers, create smaller classes and schools, and mount court challenges for increased funding to pay for resources, new programs, and school buildings ...
... problem and the poverty problem. For almost all of this time, however, the federal government has not collected data ... problems (ibid.; see also Eisenhower Foundation, 1998; Jargowsky, 1998). Lafer also demonstrated that throughout the ...
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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 | |