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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... federal and regional policies and practices that support it. Teachers, principals, and urban students are not the culprits—as reform policies that target high stakes testing, educator quality, and the control of youth assume. Rather, an ...
... policies can be replaced by signifi- cantly more equitable ones by the power ... federal polices that amply benefit the groups that govern, individual agency ... policies (such as a doubling of the minimum wage) that substantially ...
... federal policy in the 1930s, and are accepted as common sense by most ... policies and their antecedents in perspective—and to demonstrate how they ... federal policy. I argue that many of these policies could be reinstated today. Part II ...
... policies in recent years that allow 60% of large U.S. corporations to pay no federal taxes at all (and in some cases to obtain billions in rebates); harsh anti-union laws and lack of federal protection for labor organizing; Federal ...
... federal and state public transportation systems do not connect these job ... policies and arrangements to maintain urban poverty and metropolitan ... federal and regional mandates and practices. The local is not only a product ...
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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 |