The Fight for Local Control
ISBN: 9781501704116
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Suburban schools; Educational change; Democracy and education; Education; Education and state;

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.

Campbell F. Scribner is Assistant Professor of Education at Ohio Wesleyan University.


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