LEADER 05264nam 22007095 450 001 9910821540603321 005 20220316203030.0 010 $a1-5017-6462-4 010 $a1-5017-4841-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501748417 035 $a(CKB)4100000010650433 035 $a(OCoLC)1110656597 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse81351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5964950 035 $a(DE-B1597)535327 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501748417 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010650433 100 $a20200526h20202020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCreating the suburban school advantage $erace, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis /$fJohn L. Rury 210 1$aIthaca, NY :$cCornell University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aHistories of American Education 311 $a1-5017-4840-8 311 $a1-5017-4839-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction: Educating the Fragmented Metropolis --$t1. Suburban and Urban Schools: Two Sides of a National Metropolitan Coin --$t2. Uniting and Dividing a Heartland Metropolis: Growth and Inequity in Postwar Kansas City --$t3. Fall from Grace: The Transformation of an Urban School System --$t4. Racialized Advantage: The Missouri Suburban School Districts --$t5. Conflict in Suburbia: Localism, Race, and Education in Johnson County, Kansas --$tEpilogue: An Enduring Legacy of Inequality --$tAppendix: Statistical Analyses and Oral History Sources --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aCreating the Suburban School Advantage explains how American suburban school districts gained a competitive edge over their urban counterparts. John L. Rury provides a national overview of the process, focusing on the period between 1950 and 1980, and presents a detailed study of metropolitan Kansas City, a region representative of trends elsewhere.While big city districts once were widely seen as superior and attracted families seeking the best educational opportunities for their children, suburban school systems grew rapidly in the post-World War II era as middle class and more affluent families moved to those communities. As Rury relates, at the same time, economically dislocated African Americans migrated from the South to center-city neighborhoods, testing the capacity of urban institutions. As demographic trends drove this urban-suburban divide, a suburban ethos of localism contributed to the socio-economic exclusion that became a hallmark of outlying school systems. School districts located wholly or partly within the municipal boundaries of Kansas City, Missouri offer revealing cases for understanding these national patterns.As Rury demonstrates, struggles to achieve greater educational equity and desegregation contributed to so-called white flight and what Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan termed a crisis of urban education in 1965. Despite often valiant efforts to serve inner city children and bolster urban school districts, the result of this exodus, Rury cogently argues, was the creation of a new metropolitan educational hierarchy?a mirror image of the urban-centric model that prevailed before World War II. The stubborn perception that suburban schools are superior, reflective of test scores and budgets, has persisted into the 21st century and instantiates today's metropolitan landscape of social, economic, and educational inequality. 410 0$aHistories of American education. 606 $aEducational equalization$zKansas$zJohnson County$xHistory 606 $aEducational equalization$zMissouri$zKansas City Metropolitan Area$xHistory 606 $aRacism in education$zKansas$zJohnson County$xHistory 606 $aRacism in education$zMissouri$zKansas City Metropolitan Area$xHistory 606 $aDiscrimination in education$zKansas$zJohnson County$xHistory 606 $aDiscrimination in education$zMissouri$zKansas City Metropolitan Area$xHistory 606 $aSuburban schools$zKansas$zJohnson County$xHistory 606 $aSuburban schools$zMissouri$zKansas City Metropolitan Area$xHistory 607 $aKansas$zJohnson County$2fast 607 $aMissouri$zKansas City Metropolitan Area$2fast 608 $aHistory.$2fast 610 $aopportunity hoarding, racial segregation, Kansas City, localism, metropolitan development. 615 0$aEducational equalization$xHistory. 615 0$aEducational equalization$xHistory. 615 0$aRacism in education$xHistory. 615 0$aRacism in education$xHistory. 615 0$aDiscrimination in education$xHistory. 615 0$aDiscrimination in education$xHistory. 615 0$aSuburban schools$xHistory. 615 0$aSuburban schools$xHistory. 676 $a371.0109778/411 700 $aRury$b John L.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01472811 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821540603321 996 $aCreating the suburban school advantage$94074616 997 $aUNINA