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There goes the neighborhood : rural school consolidation at the grass roots in early twentieth-century Iowa

Title
There goes the neighborhood : rural school consolidation at the grass roots in early twentieth-century Iowa / David R. Reynolds.
Author
Reynolds, David R.
Publication
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description
xii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
  • "Despite being the centerpiece of rural educational reform for most of the twentieth century, rural school consolidation has received remarkably little scholarly attention. Now in There Goes the Neighborhood David Reynolds remedies this situation by examining the rural school consolidation movement in that most midwestern of midwestern states, Iowa."--BOOK JACKET.
  • "Combining social and oral history, modern social theory, historical geography, and ethnography, There Goes the Neighborhood is the most authoritative analysis to date of the politics, geography, and social history of rural school consolidation in any state."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) and index.
Contents
Pt. I. Theoretical and Historical Contexts. 1. Introduction: Placing Rural Education Reform. 2. Family, Neighborhood, Church, and School. 3. The Country Life Movement and Moral Landscapes of Modernity. 4. The Political Economy of Public Schools in the Midwest during the Golden Age. 5. Educational Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa -- Pt. II. Resistance and Place. 6. Rural Resistance to Consolidation: Who? Why? Where? 7. Rural School Consolidation and the Social Construction of Place: A Case Study of Delaware County. 8. Rural School Consolidation and the Making of Buck Creek. 9. Rural School Consolidation and the Remaking of Buck Creek. Epilogue: Rural School Consolidation - Misplacing Educational Reform?
ISBN
0877456933 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
99029743
OCLC
ocm41238531
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries