Jean Anyon

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Jean Anyon is an internationally acclaimed critical theorist and researcher in education. Her work uses political economy to assess the impact of public policy on urban neighborhoods and schools. Her focus has been on the confluence of race, social class, and policy. Many of her writings are classics in the field - for example, Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work, Social Class and School Knowledge, and Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Education. In 2005 she published Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and a New Social Movement ISBN 0-415-95099-6 . She is a professor of urban education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.