Rury, John L.
Urban Education in the United States
1. Introduction: The Changing Social Contours of Urban Education
John L. Rury
Part One. The Origins of Urban School Systems
2. Common Schools before the “Common School Revival”: New York Schooling in the 1790s
Carl F. Kaestle
3. The Origins of Public Education in Baltimore, 1825–1829
Tina H. Sheller
4. Popular Education in Nineteenth Century St. Louis
Selwyn K. Troen
Part Two. Bureaucracy and Curricular Differentiation, 1870–1910
5. Bureaucracy and the Common School: the Example of Portland, Oregon, 1851–1913
David Tyack
6. Urban Reform and the Schools: Kindergartens in Massachusetts, 1870–1915
Marvin Lazerson
7. Progressivism and Curriculum Differentiation: Special Classes in the Atlanta Public Schools, 1898–1923
Barry M. Franklin
Part Three. Policies and Politics in Urban Schools, 1900–1940
8. Taxation and Social Conflict: Teacher Unionism and Public School Finance in Chicago, 1898–1934
Marjorie Murphy
9. Missing the Mark: Intelligence Testing in Los Angeles Public Schools, 1922–32
Judith R. Raftery
10. The Politics of Educational Retrenchment in Detroit, 1929–1935
Jeffrey Mirel
Part Four. The Postwar Era: 1945–1980
11. Race and the Politics of Chicago’s Public Schools: Benjamin Willis and the Tragedy of Urban Education
John L. Rury
12. Bureaucratic Order and Special Children: Urban Schools, 1950s–1960s
Joseph L. Tropea
13. “The Community is Beginning to Rumble”: The Origins of Chicano Educational Protest in Houston, 1965–1970
Guadalupe San Miguel
Part Five. Urban School Reform in the Late Twentieth Century
14. After the Fall: Continuity and Change in Detroit, 1981–1995
Jeffrey Mirel
15. The Milwaukee Voucher Experiment
John F. Witte
16. High Stakes in Chicago
Brian Jacob
17. Epilogue: The Uncertain Future of Urban Education
John L. Rury
Keywords: Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, History of Education, Education Policy, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Educational Policy and Politics
- Editor
- Rury, John L.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2005
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 365 pages
- Category
- Upbringing, Education
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781403981875
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-53020-5