Creating the suburban school advantage : : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis / / John L. Rury.
"This book describes how an ethos of localism and racial exclusion created a perceived and real advantage for suburban school districts in the postwar era, focusing on developments in metropolitan Kansas City"--
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| Superior document: | Histories of American education |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 2020. |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Histories of American education.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : educating the divided metropolis
- Suburban and urban schools : two sides of a national metropolitan coin
- Uniting and dividing a heartland metropolis : growth and inequity in postwar Kansas City
- Fall from grace : the transformation of an urban school system
- Racialized advantage : the Missouri suburban school districts
- Conflict in suburbia : localism, race and education in Johnson County, Kansas
- Epilogue : an enduring legacy of inequality.