"Using Chicago as a case study of the interconnectedness of urban policies on housing, economic development, racial containment, and education, Lipman explores larger implications for equity, justice, and 'the right to the city.' She synthesizes scholarship in critical geography, urban sociology and anthropology, education policy, and critical analyses of race to develop a powerful critique of market-based solutions to education and urban problems and a hopeful alternative. By examining the cultural politics of why and how neoliberal policies resonate with people's lived experience, Lipman pushes the analysis toward a new educational and social paradigm rooted in radical political and economic democracy"--Abstract, p. [i].
Using Chicago as a case study of the interconnectedness of neoliberal urban policies on housing, economic development, race, and education, Lipman explores larger implications for equity, justice, and "the right to the city".
Provocative and controversial, this book reveals the historical roots of the current crisis in ghetto schools and what must be done to reverse the downward spiral.
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.
The Political Economy of Urban Schools
With every chapter thoroughly revised and updated, this edition picks up where the 2005 publication left off, including a completely new chapter detailing how three decades of political decisions leading up to the “Great Recession” ...
This book analyses the ways in which schools in urban areas are shaped and influenced by social, economic and political forces within the social environment.
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The authors persuasively argue that the present cascade of reforms to public education is a consequence of a larger intention to shrink government.
Through a case study in a Chicago public school, Means demonstrates that, despite the fragmentation of human security in low-income and racially segregated public schools, there exist positive social relations, knowledge, and desire for ...
John Rury, a well-known historian of education, introduces and highlights the most significant and classic essays dealing with urban schooling in this collection.