Books Details
Author : Jean Anyon Pages : 234 pages Publisher : Routledge Language :
ISBN-10 : 0415635586 ISBN-13 : 9780415635585
Books Descriptions
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 more equitable ones so that urban school reform can have
positive life consequences for students. Anyon provides a much-needed
new paradigm for understanding and combating educational injustice.
Radical Possibilities reminds us that historically, equitable public policies
have been typically created as a result of the political pressure brought to
bear by social movements. Basing her analysis on new
