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rights history and social movement theory, Anyon skillfully explains how the current moment offers serious possibilities for the creation of such a force. The book powerfully describes five social movements already under way in U.S. cities, and offers readers interested in building this new social movement a set of practical and theoretical insights into securing economic and educational justice for the many millions of Americas poor families and students.
List of contents
Acknowledgments Series Editor's Introduction Introduction Part I Federal Policy and Urban Education 1. The Economic is Political 2. Macroeconomic Policy and Urban Poverty 3. Taxing Rich and Poor 4. Urban Children, Social Class, and Education Part II Metropolitan Inequities 5. Jobs, Public Transit, and Urban Education 6. Housing and Tax Policy as Education Reform 7. The Local (Challenging the Rules of the Game) Part III Social Movements, New Public Policy, and Urban Educational Reform 8. How Do People Become Involved in Political Contention? 9. Building a New Social Movement 10. Putting Urban Education at the Center
About the author
Jean Anyon has published widely on the confluence of social class, race, the political economy, and education. Several of her articles are classics, and have been reprinted in over 40 edited collections. Her last book, Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban School Reform, was reviewed in the Book Review of the New York Times, among many other publications, and is widely used and cited. She teaches social and educational policy in the Doctoral Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
