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1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) : illustrations |
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1 Introduction: Placing rural educational 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; 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 |
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Epilogue: rural school consolidation -- misplacing educational reform?Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Despite being the centerpiece of rural educational reform for most of the twentieth century, rural school consolidation has received remarkably little scholarly attention. The social history and geography of the movement, the widespread resistance it provoked, and the cultural landscapes its proponents sought to transform have remained largely unexplored. 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-298) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Schools -- Centralization -- Iowa -- History -- 20th century
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Rural schools -- Iowa -- History -- 20th century
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EDUCATION -- Finance.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
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Rural schools
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Schools -- Centralization
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Landschule
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Iowa
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Iowa
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Electronic book
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
99029743 |
| ISBN |
1587293072 |
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9781587293078 |
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