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1. Radical Possibilities

   Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement, 2nd Edition

   By Jean Anyon

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   The core argument of Jean Anyon’s Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple - without directing our attention to the influence of federal and metropolitan policies have on the poverty that plagues schools and communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived will always...

   To Be Published March 31st 2014 by Routledge
2. Marx and Education

   By Jean Anyon

   Series: Routledge Key Ideas in Education

   There was only one Karl Marx, but there have been a multitude of Marxisms. 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. Marx and...

   Published March 6th 2011 by Routledge
3. Theory and Educational Research

   Toward Critical Social Explanation

   By Jean Anyon

   Series: Critical Youth Studies

   Most empirical researchers avoid the use of theory in their studies, providing data but little or no social explanation. Theoreticians, on the other hand, rarely test their ideas with empirical projects. As this groundbreaking volume makes clear, however, neither data nor theory alone is adequate...

   Published July 6th 2008 by Routledge
4. Radical Possibilities

   Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

   By Jean Anyon

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Jean Anyon's groundbreaking new book reveals 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. Public policies...such as those regulating the minimum wage, job availability, tax...

   Published March 28th 2005 by Routledge