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Peer reviewedBeadie, Nancy – American Journal of Education, 2000
Reviews David Reynolds'"There Goes the Neighborhood," which examined school consolidation and community based schooling and highlighted Delaware County, Iowa, around 1910-30. Reynolds characterizes school consolidation as expressing the enduring modern tension between what is good for a community and what is good for society. (Contains…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Place Based Education
Direct linkCuban, Larry – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1995
Reviews a book about the history of a small rural school in Braxton County, West Virginia. Argues that consolidation and eventual closure of this school resulted from political, economic, social, and cultural forces that failed to recognize the important relationship between the school and the community. Reflects on the reviewer's own previous…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Consolidated Schools, Economic Factors, Educational Change
