Jean Anyon

1. Jean Anyon Expert on Urban Education and Inner City Revitalization By Katie Baker

2. Her Specific Focus • The impact of public policy on urban education • The confluence of race, social class, and policy • Conceptualizing the relationship between schools and society.

3. Ghetto Schooling (1997) • Factors that doom urban children also smother aspirations of urban teachers, administrators and policy makers • Diagnoses the deep structural problems of urban education Click on the book to read more about it

4. Radical Possibilities (2005) • An intervention and struggle against social injustices • Student underachievement, unequal funding of public schools and the high dropout rate among working class students and students of color are linked to macroeconomic policies that work toward maintaining and reproducing social inequities. Click on the book to read more about it

5. Valuable Knowledge: Lessons from Jean Anyon • Students define knowledge from different socioeconomic backgrounds • Each school shaped students beliefs about knowledge by • Providing certain types of learning materials • Teaching and introducing these materials in particular ways Check it out at: http://tcla.gseis.ucla.edu/reportcard/tools/pdf/anyon.pdf

6. Effect on Educational Reform • Main argument lies in that we must consider a model for reform that will replace these public policies with more equitable ones, so that urban school reform can have positive consequences for low-income students. • has deepened our understanding of the relationship between schools and society