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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... low-income urban neighborhoods of color. I show that—contrary to the dominant rationales that posit “underclass” deficits as causal—the basic reason people are poor is that there are not enough jobs paying decent wages. In cities and ...
... poor. For example, according to federal guidelines, a single mother with two children with an income one dollar higher than $19,530 in 2013 is not considered officially poor. And a family of four with an income of over $23,550 is not ...
... poor in low-income urban areas is due not only to a lack of jobs with decent pay (and insufficient income to support a move out if desired), but to the lack of federal and state implementation of anti-racial discrimination laws, the ...
... income tax credit, nutrition assistance, school lunch, and housing subsidies that target the poor. Research using ... low- and moderate-income working families and individuals, was designed to encourage and reward work. To claim the ...
... lowincome people to work their way out of poverty. However, there were at most 2.4 million such openings available ... paid above poverty wage was never more than one-seventh the number of people who needed those jobs, and “the gap ...
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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 | |