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Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis /
"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"--
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Histories of American education
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.