Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis / John L. Rury.
2020
LA318.K2 R87 2020
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Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis / John L. Rury.
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9781501748394
9781501748400
9781501748417 (e-book)
9781501748400
9781501748417 (e-book)
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Histories of American education.
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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.
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.