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The Shifting Landscape of the American School District - Race, Class, Geography, and the Perpetual Reform of Local Control, 1935-2015 (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Shifting Landscape of the American School District - Race, Class, Geography, and the Perpetual Reform of Local Control, 1935-2015 (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: History of Schools and Schooling, 62
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The Shifting Landscape of the American School District offers a new
perspective on the American school district. The educational system
of the United States has long been characterized by its tradition
of local control, and the district has symbolized community
involvement in education. Scholars have written insightful studies
on individual city systems and school districts, but rarely has the
district-as an organizational form itself-been the subject of
scrutiny, and Americans have continued to take the district for
granted as the primary unit of local schooling. In recent years
reformers have also built many of their innovations upon the belief
that it is the traditional, bureaucratic, hierarchical district
that requires overhaul. The Shifting Landscape of the American
School District seeks to challenge that perception. The editors
argue that the pervasive view of district history-the notion that
the school district is a holdover from the progressive reforms of
the early twentieth century-has shrouded a fascinating story of the
ways in which districts have evolved, innovated, and reacted in
response to state and federal mandates, national reform movements,
demographic shifts, desegregation, structural/organizational
changes, and a shifting political climate. The chapters in this
volume offer compelling evidence of the many ways that districts
have expanded, contracted, integrated, consolidated, reorganized,
and been torn apart over the past century. By covering a wide range
of time periods, the authors are able to draw fascinating parallels
between the past and present.
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