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"--
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
[2020]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Histories of American education. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44690125*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
