Poverty Education spills up to youth movements – key to solve poverty and democracy
Kirshner ‘15, – Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of Colorado Boulder. ( Kirshner, Ben. Youth Activism in an Era of Education Inequality, New York University Press, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/umichigan/detail.action?docID=4004161//jrc)
Income inequality has become a familiar term in American political discourse. It limits social mobility and has a damaging effect on U.S. democracy. Education inequality is its close sibling. People are more and more aware that public education has not delivered on its promise of providing equal opportunity. These are deep and persistent problems that youth activism will not solve alone. But new youth movements, some intentionally cultivated in educational settings, others formed in response to unwelcome policies, point a way forward. They provide hope in a time of dispossession; not just hope, but strategies for expanding educational opportunity and sustaining a more participatory democracy.