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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... decades of labor battles were necessary before legislation in 1938 finally provided the legal end to child labor, an eight-hour day, a 40-hour week, and a minimum wage. This decades-long, vociferous advocacy also culminated in the 1930s ...
... that the way things are now is not the way they have been or have to be. For the U.S. had—during the decades between World War II and the late 1970s—an economic system that Financialization, Economic Disaster, And An Alternative.
... decades, the latter three have weakened (Wallace-Wells, 2004; Mishel, Bernstein, and Allegretto, 2006). In regard to infrastructure—for example bridges, public toll roads, transit equipment, electric power plants, and sewer systems ...
... decades after World War II, an economy in which extreme financial risk was outlawed, and broad social equality (at least for whites) was a product of the way the system worked. Contextualizing. the. Great. Recession. Financial speculation ...
... decades the marginal (top) income tax rate for individuals with great wealth averaged 86% in the 1940s, 91% in the 1950s, 80% in the 1960s, and 70% in the 1970s. (The top marginal rate on income was lowered during the following decades ...
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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 | |