Books written by Jean Anyon

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  Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform

  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.

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  Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation

  In the end this rich collection teaches education scholars how to deliberately engage with critical social theory in research to produce work that is simultaneously theoretically inspired, politically engaged, and empirically evocative.

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  Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

  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” ...

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  Marx and Education

  This concise, introductory book by internationally renowned scholar Jean Anyon centers on the ideas of Marx that have been used in education studies as a guide to theory, analysis, research, and practice.

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  Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement

  Radical Possibilities examines the concrete effects of economic decision-making on the education sector, and argues that urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail unless we critically examine the ways in which federal ...

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  Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement

  Anyon discusses the influence of federal and metropolitan policies and practices on the poverty that plagues schools and communities in American cities and segregated, low-income suburbs.

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  Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

  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” ...

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  Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform

  Argues that without fundamental change in government and business policies and restoring political power and economic opportunities to inner-city residents and the redirection of major resources back into the schools and the communities ...

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  Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

  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.

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  Marx and Education

  ... Rewarding strivers: Helping low- income students succeed in college. Richard Kahlenberg, editor. New York: Century Foundation Press, 71–190. Center for Youth Development and Policy Research. (2010). National Community Youth Mapping site ...