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

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Anyon, Jean
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Critical social thought.
Subjects:
Education, Urban > Social aspects > United States.
Educational change > United States.
Social change > United States.
Education, Urban > Social aspects.
Educational change.
Social change.
United States.
Table of 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.

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