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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... poor people live in fiscally stressed suburbs or towns outside the central city, with an increasing number of neighborhoods of concentrated poverty there. A number of social scientists concerned about poverty have investigated the ...
... poor neighborhoods. They are in close proximity to, and able to have continual contact with, community adults and youth. Educators who have built up trust with these community members are in a perfect position to work with them in ...
... poor and immigrant communities in their mortgage schemes (Baker, 2008; Ferguson, 2012a). Federal. Deregulation. of. Banking. An important reason that financialization grew to dangerously large proportions was the gradual abandoning of rules ...
... poor is that there are not enough jobs paying decent wages. In cities and impoverished suburbs, the harsh economic realities of poverty shape the lives of parents of school children, and therefore the lives of their children as well ...
... poor is staggering. In 2000, at the height of a booming economy, almost a fifth of all men (19.5%), and almost a third of all women (33.1%) earned poverty-level wages working full time, year round. In the same year, over one in four ...
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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 | |