Why Rural Schools Matter
Why Rural Schools Matter
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Abstract
From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current education debates. But from these accounts, one would never know that 56 million Americans live in rural communities and depend on their rural public schools to meet their educational and, often, their economic and social needs. This book shares the untold narratives of rural education. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic research in two rural Southern towns, the book exposes the complicated ways in which schools shape the racial dynamics of their towns and nurture the communities that surround them. It argues that current education policies, both limiting the roles these schools play and threatening to close them, also endanger rural communities. The book issues a warning: the state's growing powers—and the current narrowing of a school's purpose to academic achievement alone—endanger rural America and undermine the potential of a school, whether rural or urban, to sustain a community. Demonstrating the effects of narrow definitions of public education in an era of economic turmoil and widening social inequality, the book calls for a more contextual approach to education policymaking, involving both state and community.
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Front Matter
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The Meaning of a School
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Rural Histories
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Researching Rural
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Where the Heart Is: School, Relationships, and the Delight Community
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The Ties That Bind: Schools, Stories, and the Black Community of Earle
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The Topography of Race
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The Substance of Community
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Our Only Hope
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The Possibility of Public Education
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End Matter
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