Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis / John L. Rury.
Rury, John L., 1951- author.
2020
LA318.K2 R87 2020
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Title Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis / John L. Rury.
Author Rury, John L., 1951- author.
ISBN 9781501748394
9781501748400
9781501748417 (e-book)
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number LA318.K2 R87 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification 371.0109778/411
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Histories of American education.
Available in Other Form Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis.
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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.

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