Beschreibung:
Creating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury provides a national overview of the process, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1980, and presents a detailed study of metropolitan Kansas City, a region representative of trends elsewhere.
Introduction: Educating the Fragment Metropolis1. Suburban and Urban Schools: Two Sides of a National Metropolitan Coin2. Uniting and Dividing a Heartland Metropolis: Growth and Inequity in Postwar Kansas City3. Fall from Grace: The Transformation of an Urban School System4. Racialized Advantage: The Missouri Suburban School Districts5. Conflict in Suburbia: Localism, Race, and Education in Johnson County, KansasEpilogue: An Enduring Legacy of Inequality