There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa

Contents

contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix part i. theoretical and historical contexts 1 Introduction: Placing Rural Education Reform 3 2 Family, Neighborhood, Church, and School 17 3 The Country Life Movement and Moral Landscapes of Modernity 30 4 The Political Economy of Public Schools in the Midwest during the Golden Age 46 5 Educational Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa 59 part ii. resistance and place 6 Rural Resistance to Consolidation: Who? Why? Where? 85 7 Rural School Consolidation and the Social Construction of Place: A Case Study of Delaware County 106 8 Rural School Consolidation and the Making of Buck Creek 131 9 Rural School Consolidation and the Remaking of Buck Creek 174 Epilogue: Rural School Consolidation— Misplacing Educational Reform? 225 Appendix 249 Notes 257 Bibliography 289 Index 299 ...