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Document Type: | Book |
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Jean Anyon |
ISBN: | 9780415635578 0415635578 9780415635585 0415635586 |
OCLC Number: | 855977645 |
Description: | ix. 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part I: The great recession -- Financialization, economic disaster, and an alternative -- Part II: Federal policies that maintain poverty -- The economic is political -- Federal policies that keep people poor -- Income, wealth, and taxes -- New hope for urban students -- Part III: Metro area inequities -- Metro areas and the regional geography of poverty : job and public transit mismatches -- Housing reform as education reform -- Regional and local challenges to inequity -- Part IV: Social movements, new public policy, and urban educational reform -- How do people become involved in political contention? -- Building a social movement -- Putting educators at the center of a social movement for economic and educational justice. |
Series Title: | Critical social thought. |
Responsibility: | Jean Anyon. |
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"A year after her death, this second edition of Anyon's Radical Possibilities continues to trouble the status quo of American education systems that reinforce hegemonically stratified social structures...Anyon's voice is radical, and needs to be heard in the ongoing debate over where the US is headed...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections."- D. D. Bouchard, Crown College, in CHOICE, January 2015"In this new edition of Radical Possibilities, Anyon makes it clear that the real obstacles to change in urban schools are not lazy teachers, unmotivated students or disengaged parents. Rather, the roots of the problems confronting urban schools lie in an economic system that perpetuates gross inequality and protects the powerful at the expense of the poor. She also reminds us that the system can and has been challenged through collective agency and organized resistance. It is a message of pragmatic optimism that will inform, empower and inspire readers."-Pedro Noguera, Professor of Education, New York University"This is a hopeful book for cynical times, a call to action rather than reaction, a call for change that helps the 99% rather than enriches the 1%. Jean Anyon asks us to envision a more equitable future so we can start to create it."-William G. Tierney, University Professor and Wilbur-Kieffer Professor, University of Southern California"For over three decades, Jean Anyon has been one of the English speaking world's most powerful intellectuals on the subject of education, and this revised edition solidifies her legacy. The volume is a 'must read' for anyone who works to understand and challenge the seemingly intractable relationship between race, class, schooling, and social and economic inequalities in the 21st century."-Lois Weis, State University of New York Distinguished Professor, University at Buffalo Read more...


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