Why rural schools matter / Mara Casey Tieken ; cover illustration by Sally Fry Scruggs.

By:

Tieken, Mara Casey [author.]

Contributor(s):

Scruggs, Sally Fry [illustrator.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781469618500
1469618508
9781469618494
1469618494
1469618486
9781469618487

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Case studies

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Why rural schools matter.DDC classification:

370.9173/4 23

LOC classification:

LC5146.5 .T57 2014eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Cover Page; Why Rural Schools Matter; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: The Meaning of a School; Chapter Two: Rural Histories; Chapter Three: Researching Rural; Chapter Four: Where the Heart Is; Chapter Five: The Ties That Bind; Chapter Six: The Topography of Race; Chapter Seven: The Substance of Community; Chapter Eight: Our Only Hope; Chapter Nine: The Possibility of Public Education; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current debates about education. From these accounts, one would never know that 51 million Americans live in rural communities and depend on their public schools to meet not only educational but also social and economic needs. For many communities, these schools are the ties that bind. Why Rural Schools Matter shares the untold story of rural education. Drawing upon extensive research in two southern towns, Mara Tieken exposes the complicated ways in which schools shape the racial dynamics of their towns and sustain the communities that surround them. The growing power of the state, however, brings the threat of rural school closure, which jeopardizes the education of children and the future of communities. With a nuanced understanding of the complicated relationship between communities and schools, Tieken warns us that current education policies--which narrow schools' purpose to academic achievement alone--endanger rural America and undermine the potential of a school, whether rural or urban, to sustain a community. Vividly demonstrating the effects of constricted definitions of public education in an era of economic turmoil and widening inequality, Tieken calls for a more contextual approach to education policymaking, involving both state and community.

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From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current debates about education. From these accounts, one would never know that 51 million Americans live in rural communities and depend on their public schools to meet not only educational but also social and economic needs. For many communities, these schools are the ties that bind. Why Rural Schools Matter shares the untold story of rural education. Drawing upon extensive research in two southern towns, Mara Tieken exposes the complicated ways in which schools shape the racial dynamics of their towns and sustain the communities that surround them. The growing power of the state, however, brings the threat of rural school closure, which jeopardizes the education of children and the future of communities. With a nuanced understanding of the complicated relationship between communities and schools, Tieken warns us that current education policies--which narrow schools' purpose to academic achievement alone--endanger rural America and undermine the potential of a school, whether rural or urban, to sustain a community. Vividly demonstrating the effects of constricted definitions of public education in an era of economic turmoil and widening inequality, Tieken calls for a more contextual approach to education policymaking, involving both state and community.

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