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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean Anyon |
ISBN: | 9780415950992 0415950996 |
OCLC Number: | 841615182 |
Notes: | Table of contents online: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip051/2004023037.html. |
Description: | xv, 240 páginas ; 23 centímetros. |
Contents: | The economic is political -- Macroeconomic policy and urban poverty -- Taxes and the rich -- Urban children, social class, and education -- Jobs, public transit, and urban education -- Housing and tax policy as education reform -- The local (challenging the rules of the game) -- How do people become involved in political contention? -- Building a new social movement -- Putting urban education at the center. |
Series Title: | Critical social thought series. |
Responsibility: | Jean Anyon. |
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'Radical Possibilities is a powerful and important book. Jean Anyon argues forcefully and persuasively for a new and comprehensive vision to understand and confront the problems of urban education.' - William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University'Radical Possibilities is a paradigm breaking text of really useful knowledge in urban education. As this knowledge permeates beyond the academy and into the inner-city community there can be no doubt that the radical possibilities which it highlights will become generative of new social movements for the transformation of urban communities and schools.' - Critical Studies in Education Read more...


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