Matthew Gardner Kelly

Dividing the Public

School Finance and the Creation of Structural Inequity

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Produktbeschreibung

"In Dividing the Public, Matthew Gardner Kelly analyzes how district property taxation won against alternative approaches to education funding during the early years of American public education. He argues that only when historians take seriously the history of school funding in western states such as California can we see the full scope of how decisions about district property taxation have been rooted in deep divisions over the relationship between education, wealth, and opportunity throughout the United States."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781501773266
• ISBN-10: 1501773267
• Artikelnr.: 68887503

Autorenporträt

Matthew Gardner Kelly is Assistant Professor of Education at Pennsylvania State University. Follow him on X @MGardnerKelly.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Narratives of State Innocence and the History of School
Finance
1. Funding for Education, Settler Colonialism, and the"California
Experiment" in Common School Centralization,1848-1865
2. Race, Space, and Property Values: Buying and Selling Schools in aWestern
State
3. Finance Reform and the Contested Meaning of "Public" in the1870s and
1880s
4. State-Sponsored Inequalities, Boosterism, and the Race forProgressive
Era School Reform, 1890-1910
5. The Rise of the District Property Tax, Educational Expertise,
andRationalized Inequality, 1910-1928
6. The Art of Addressing Inequality While Expanding It, 1928- 1950
Epilogue: Inequity Triumphant