02987nam 2200577Ia 450 991045612580332120200520144314.01-58729-307-2(CKB)111056486862676(EBL)837097(OCoLC)50321049(SSID)ssj0000258390(PQKBManifestationID)11204422(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258390(PQKBWorkID)10255699(PQKB)10313269(MiAaPQ)EBC837097(MdBmJHUP)muse12561(Au-PeEL)EBL837097(CaPaEBR)ebr10354484(EXLCZ)9911105648686267619990416d1999 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThere goes the neighborhood[electronic resource] rural school consolidation at the grass roots in early twentieth-century Iowa /David R. ReynoldsIowa City University of Iowa Pressc19991 online resource (319 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-693-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) and index.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 creekEpilogue: rural school consolidation - misplacing educational reform?Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; IndexDespite 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.SchoolsCentralizationIowaHistory20th centuryRural schoolsIowaHistory20th centuryElectronic books.SchoolsCentralizationHistoryRural schoolsHistory379.1/535379.777Reynolds David R1054271MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456125803321There goes the neighborhood2486719UNINA