Radical Possibilities - Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement

Radical Possibilities examines the concrete effects of economic decision-making on the education sector, and argues that urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail unless we critically examine the ways in which federal policies maintain the poverty that plagues American cities.

List of contents

Introduction
Part ONE - The Great Recession
Chapter One - Financialization, Economic Disaster, and an Alternative 
Part TWO - Federal Policies that Maintain Poverty
Chapter Two  - The Economic is Political
Chapter Three - Federal Policies that Keep People Poor
Chapter Four - Income, Wealth, and Taxes
Chapter Five - New Hope for Urban Students
Part THREE - Metro Area Inequities
Chapter Six -  Metro Areas and the Regional Geography of Poverty: Job and Public Transit Mismatches
Chapter Seven - Housing Reform as Education Reform
Chapter Eight - Regional and Local Challenges to Inequity
Part FOUR - Social Movements, New Public Policy, and Urban Educational Reform
Chapter Nine - How do People Become Involved in Political Contention?
Chapter Ten - Building a Social Movement
Chapter eEeven - Putting Educators at the Center of a Social Movement for Economic and Educational Justice

About the author

Jean Anyon is professor of social and educational policy in the Doctoral Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban School Reform.

Summary

Radical Possibilities examines the concrete effects of economic decision-making on the education sector, and argues that urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail unless we critically examine the ways in which federal policies maintain the poverty that plagues American cities.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Anyon, Jean (Cuny Graduate Center Anyon, Anyon Jean
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2014
• EAN: 9780415635578
• ISBN: 978-0-415-63557-8
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Critical Social Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives, Educational strategies & policy, Moral and social purpose of education, Urban communities, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, Urban communities / city life