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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459786303321

Autore

Lipman Pauline <1944-, >

Titolo

The new political economy of urban education : neoliberalism, race, and the right to the city / / Pauline Lipman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-10351-6

9786613103512

1-136-76000-8

0-203-82180-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

The critical social thought series

Disciplina

370.9173/2

Soggetti

Education, Urban - United States

Multicultural education - Curricula - United States

Education - Curricula - United States

Cultural pluralism - United States

Toleration - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY OF URBAN EDUCATION; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Series Editor Introduction; 1 Introduction; 2 Neoliberal Urbanism and Education Policy; 3 Dismantling Public Schools, Displacing African Americans and Latino/as; 4 Racial Politics of Mixed-Income Schools and Housing: Moralizing Poverty, Building the Neoliberal City; 5 Venture Philanthropy: From Government to Governance with Cristen Jenkins; 6 Choice and Empowerment: The Cultural Politics of Charter Schools; 7 Education and the Right to the City: Another World is Possible and Necessary; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal



economic, political, and ideological processes that are reshaping cities in the United States and around the globe.Using Chicago as a case study of the interconnectedness of neoliberal urban policies on housing, economic development, race, and