Radical Possibilities

Jean Anyon is professor of social and educational policy in the Doctoral Program in Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban School Reform.

• IntroductionPart ONE – The Great RecessionChapter One – Financialization, Economic Disaster, and an Alternative Part TWO – Federal Policies that Maintain PovertyChapter Two  - The Economic is PoliticalChapter Three – Federal Policies that Keep People PoorChapter Four – Income, Wealth, and TaxesChapter Five – New Hope for Urban StudentsPart THREE – Metro Area InequitiesChapter Six –  Metro Areas and the Regional Geography of Poverty: Job and Public Transit MismatchesChapter Seven – Housing Reform as Education ReformChapter Eight - Regional and Local Challenges to InequityPart FOUR - Social Movements, New Public Policy, and Urban Educational ReformChapter Nine – How do People Become Involved in Political Contention?Chapter Ten – Building a Social MovementChapter eEeven – Putting Educators at the Center of a Social Movement for Economic and Educational Justice

"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