LEADER 02950nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910808557403321 005 20240516103850.0 010 $a1-58729-307-2 035 $a(CKB)111056486862676 035 $a(EBL)837097 035 $a(OCoLC)50321049 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258390 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11204422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258390 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10255699 035 $a(PQKB)10313269 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12561 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL837097 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10354484 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC837097 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486862676 100 $a19990416d1999 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThere goes the neighborhood $erural school consolidation at the grass roots in early twentieth-century Iowa /$fDavid R. Reynolds 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-693-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-298) and index. 327 $a1 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 327 $aEpilogue: rural school consolidation - misplacing educational reform?Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aDespite 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. 606 $aSchools$xCentralization$zIowa$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRural schools$zIowa$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aSchools$xCentralization$xHistory 615 0$aRural schools$xHistory 676 $a379.1/535 676 $a379.777 700 $aReynolds$b David R$01621614 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808557403321 996 $aThere goes the neighborhood$93955002 997 $aUNINA