Radical possibilities : public policy, urban education, and a new social movement / Jean Anyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anyon, Jean, author.

Series:

Critical social thought.

The critical social thought series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Urban--Social aspects--United States.

Education, Urban.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Social change--United States.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jean Anyon's groundbreaking new book reveals the influence of federal and metropolitan policies and practices on the poverty that plagues schools and communities in American cities and segregated, low-income suburbs. Public policies...such as those regulating the minimum wage, job availability, tax rates, federal transit, and affordable housing...all create conditions in urban areas that no education policy as currently conceived can transcend. In this first book since her best-selling Ghetto Schooling, Jean Anyon argues that we must replace these federal and metro-area policies with

Contents:

I: Federal policy and urban education

The economic is political

Federal policies maintain urban poverty

Taxing rich and poor

New hope for urban students

II: Metropolitan inequities

Jobs and public transit mismatches

Regional housing reform as education reform

Local challenges to federal and regional mandates

III: Social movements, new public policy, and urban educational reform

How do people become involved in political contention?

Building a new social movement

Putting education at the center.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-228) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-64270-0

0-203-47970-X

1-136-61564-4

9780203479704

OCLC:

812911580