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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... workers of color in urban areas, and industrial and other job development in far-flung suburbs where public transit does not reach, all maintain poverty in city neighborhoods and therefore the schools. In order to solve the systemic ...
... workers and labor organizers, and know that those utopian schemes for an eight-hour workday, a minimum wage, and some sort of financial assistance when fired, became federal policy in the 1930s, and are accepted as common sense by most ...
... workers, or to the increasingly large portion of employment that pays poverty and near-poverty wages. Yet federal ... workers' income at the median of highly-paid, unionized workers in the decades after World War II; federal programs for ...
... workers, so that it rose when unionized workers' pay rose (Ettlinger, 2006). During this period, goals of education were discussed in terms of expanding democracy, rather than in business and accountability terms, as in more recent ...
... workers or employees. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, passed in 1867, has been recently interpreted by the Supreme Court to turn corporations into “persons” so they would be free from government “interference.” Because economies ...
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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 | |