Jean Anyon
American critical educational theorist and scholar known for research on social class, urban education, and educational policy; author of influential works including 'Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work' and 'Radical Possibilities.'
Books
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1. Radical Possibilities
Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement
The book argues that real improvement in urban education requires fundamental political and economic change rather than narrow, market-driven school reforms; it critiques accountability measures, standardized testing, and technocratic policies that ignore class and community contexts, shows how schooling is shaped by broader social structures, and calls for coalitions of teachers, parents, workers, and activists to pursue democratic control of schools, equitable funding, and policies that address poverty and inequality while offering case studies and strategies for building a grassroots social movement for educational justice.
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