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Campbell F. Scribner - The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy - 9781501700804 - V9781501700804
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The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy

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Description for The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy Hardback. Series: American Institutions and Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 black & white halftones, 2 tables, 3 maps, 4 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JNB; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 485.

Throughout the twentieth century, local control of school districts was one of the most contentious issues in American politics. As state and federal regulation attempted to standardize public schools, conservatives defended local prerogative as a bulwark of democratic values. Yet their commitment to those values was shifting and selective. In The Fight for Local Control, Campbell F. Scribner demonstrates how, in the decades after World War II, suburban communities appropriated legacies of rural education to assert their political autonomy and in the process radically changed educational law.

Scribner’s account unfolds on the metropolitan fringe, where rapid suburbanization overlapped with ... Read more

Yet Scribner also provides insight into why many conservatives have since abandoned localism for policies that stress school choice and federal accountability. In the 1970s, as new battles arose over unions, textbooks, and taxes, districts on the rural-suburban fringe became the first to assert individual choice in the form of school vouchers, religious exemptions, and a marketplace model of education. At the same time, they began to embrace tax limitation and standardized testing, policies that checked educational bureaucracy but bypassed local school boards. The effect, Scribner concludes, has been to reinforce inequalities between districts while weakening participatory government within them, keeping the worst aspects of local control in place while forfeiting its virtues.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
American Institutions and Society
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501700804
SKU
V9781501700804
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About Campbell F. Scribner
Campbell F. Scribner is Assistant Professor of Education at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Reviews for The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy
An excellent book forces the reader into such thorny terrain, and Scribner's important and meticulously researched study clearly does that. In sum, his brilliantly argued book should seriously interest this journal’s readers, and its careful and accessible prose also makes it suitable for advanced undergraduates in both history and education policy programs.
Jon Shelton, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
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