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

Name: Radical Possibilities Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement
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ISBN: 9780415950992

ISBN-10: 0415950996

ISBN-13: 9780415950992

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jean Anyon

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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-sellingGhetto Schooling, Jean Anyon argues that we must replace these federal and metro-area policies with more equitable ones so that urban school reform can have positive life consequences for students. Anyon…

Book details

List price: $43.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Series Editor's


Introduction



Federal Policy and Urban Education



The Economic is Political



Macroeconomic Policy and Urban Poverty



Taxing Rich and Poor



Urban Children, Social Class, and Education



Metropolitan Inequities



Jobs, Public Transit, and Urban Education



Housing and Tax Policy as Education Reform



The Local (Challenging the Rules of the Game)



Social Movements, New Public Policy, and Urban Educational Reform



How Do People Become Involved in Political Contention?



Building a New Social Movement



Putting Urban Education at the Center