EDUCATION IN RURAL AMERICA : a reassessment of conventional wisdom.: a reassessment of conventional wisdom. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Sher, Jonathan P
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Editor's Acknowledgments; The Authors; Pluralism in the Countryside: A Brief Profile of Rural America and Its Schools; PART ONE: PANACEAS AS POLICY; 1. The Urbanization of Rural Schools, 1840-1970; Introduction; 1840-1870: The First Stage of Urbanization; 1870-1895: Spreading the Gospel of Urbanization; 1896-1920: Urbanization Comes of Age; 1920-1944: Urbanization as Conventional Wisdom; 1944-1970: Urbanization in the Modern Era; Conclusion 2. Economy, Efficiency, and Equality: The Myths of Rural School and District ConsolidationIntroduction; The Myth of Economy; The Myths of Economy, Efficiency, and Equality in District Reorganization; The Myth of Improved Quality; Why Did It Happen?; Implications for Educational Policy; PART TWO: POLICY AND PARADOX; 3. Choosing Smallness: An Examination of the Small School Experience in Rural America; Consolidators vs. Conservators: Two Views of Rural Education; The Nature of the Traditional Small School; The Rural School Today-What Remains? The Virtues and Limitations of the Traditional Rural SchoolSmall School Improvement and Reform-Some Recent Projects; Maximizing the Potential of Smallness; New Models for Rural Education; 4. Coping with Sparsity: A Review of Rural School Finance; School Finance-History; Equity; Local Control; School Finance-Current Reforms; Major School Finance Issues in Rural America; Effects of School Finance Policy on Rural Problems; Recent Reforms; Rural Finance in the Future; Conclusion; PART THREE: THE REAL WORLD; 5. Class Conflict in Rural Education: A Case Study of Preston County, West Virginia 6. Centralization versus Decentralization: A Case Study of Rural Education in VermontIntroduction; Section One: The Context of Centralization; Vermont 1976: A Sketch of America's Most Rural State; Review of Vermont Centralization Studies; Implications of Centralization Studies; Vermont School District Organization: 1975-76; Section Two: Centralization in Theory and Practice; The Arguments-Economy, Effectiveness, Equality of Opportunity, and Control; The Schools and the Supervisory Unions; Economics of Centralization; Cost-effectiveness of Consolidation; Equality of Opportunity
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : ROUTLEDGE
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume.)
• Subjects: 370.973091734; Education, Rural -- United States; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429047411; 9780429706462; 0429706464; 9780429726477; 0429726473; 9780429746482; 0429746482
• Related ISBNs: 042904741X; 0367017555; 9780367017552
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