RADICAL POSSIBILITIES - PUBLIC POLICY, URBAN EDUCATION ANF A NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT

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.