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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... income parents are rarely told about school reforms being planned, and the changes typically have had little community support. If mainstream school reform groups listened, and adapted, to projects that education and other community ...
... income around, financial speculation propels income upwards, to the relatively small handful of investors with sufficient wealth to invest in the private equity markets. In this chapter I describe the main determinants of the Great ...
... income families received larger shares of the economic pie. Wages rose steadily and real median family income more than doubled from the late 1940s to the late '70s. (It rose less than 25% in the three decades following—with the ...
... income tax” (Fisher, 2002). Marginal tax rates on individuals were also sharply reduced from their levels in the ... income accumulation by a few have climbed. The top 1% of income tax filers own 40% of all wealth in the U.S. and take ...
... income going to wages and salaries reached its lowest recorded level in 2005), a vastly smaller middle class, diminished public sphere and safety net, and the increases in income and wealth inequality mentioned above, among others ...
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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 | |