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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... Radical Possibilities is another attempt to intervene against injustice. In it, I examine ways in which the current political economy maintains the damage that U.S. history has inflicted on cities. While historical decisions and ...
... Radical Possibilities, and updated in later chapters here (regarding minimum wages, lack ofdecentjobs, taxes, etc.), have been instrumental in con- tributing to this inequality. Extreme inequality matters not only for humanistic reasons ...
... possible, such as public education, in order to eradicate the need for taxes. Effects on Urban Education It is an important part of my argument here, as in the first edition of Radical Possibilities, that the political economic policies ...
... chances when there is no decent job the diploma will attract, and no funding that will stay with the gradu- ate through a college degree. Thus, public policies that concentrate on poverty, delimiting wages to bare subsistence, and ...
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PART II Federal Policies that Maintain Poverty | 27 |
PART III Metro Area Inequities | 89 |
PART IV Social Movements New Public Policy and Urban Educational Reform | 127 |
Bibliography | 188 |
Index | 223 |