Title Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis / John L. Rury.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2020]

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Histories of American education
	Histories of American education.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Suburban schools -- Missouri -- Kansas City Metropolitan Area -- History.
	Suburban schools.
	Missouri -- Kansas City Metropolitan Area.
	History.
	Suburban schools -- Kansas -- Johnson County -- History.
	Kansas -- Johnson County.
	Discrimination in education -- Missouri -- Kansas City Metropolitan Area -- History.
	Discrimination in education.
	Discrimination in education -- Kansas -- Johnson County -- History.
	Racism in education -- Missouri -- Kansas City Metropolitan Area -- History.
	Racism in education.
	Racism in education -- Kansas -- Johnson County -- History.
	Educational equalization -- Missouri -- Kansas City Metropolitan Area -- History.
	Educational equalization.
	Educational equalization -- Kansas -- Johnson County -- History.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Rury, John L., 1951- Creating the suburban school advantage. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020 9781501748394 (DLC) 2019032213
ISBN	9781501748400 (electronic book)
	1501748408 (electronic book)
	9781501748417 (electronic book)
	1501748416 (electronic book)
	9781501748394 (hardcover)

Title Creating the suburban school advantage : race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis / John L. Rury.

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