Creating the Suburban School Advantage : : Race, Localism, and Inequality in an American Metropolis / / John L. Rury.
Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury provides a national overview of the process, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1980, and presents a detailed study of metropolitan Kansas...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Histories of American Education
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 p.) :; 17 maps, 5 charts |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Educating the Fragmented Metropolis
- 1. Suburban and Urban Schools: Two Sides of a National Metropolitan Coin
- 2. Uniting and Dividing a Heartland Metropolis: Growth and Inequity in Postwar Kansas City
- 3. Fall from Grace: The Transformation of an Urban School System
- 4. Racialized Advantage: The Missouri Suburban School Districts
- 5. Conflict in Suburbia: Localism, Race, and Education in Johnson County, Kansas
- Epilogue: An Enduring Legacy of Inequality
- Appendix: Statistical Analyses and Oral History Sources
- Notes
- Index