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Author Kitzmiller, Erika M

Title The Roots of Educational Inequality Philadelphia's Germantown High School, 1907-2014
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (329 p.)
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Campaign for an Elite Public High School in Philadelphia's Suburban Sanctuary, 1907-1914 -- Chapter 2. Philanthropy Sustains Philadelphia's Expanding Public School System, 1914-1920 -- Chapter 3. Philadelphia's Reliance on Philanthropy Begins to Crack, 1929-1940 -- Chapter 4. Philadelphia Mobilizes for War, In equality on the Homefront Escalates, 1941-1957 -- Chapter 5. Urban Renewal, Urban Unrest, and the Threat of a "Poverty- Stricken Negro Ghetto," 1958-1967 -- Chapter 6. The Emergence of an "Urban" School System: Fiscal Shortages, Labor Strikes, and Stalled Desegregation, 1968-1981 -- Chapter 7. Philadelphia School Leaders Fight to Restore and Control Philadelphia's Public Schools, 1982-2000 -- Chapter 8. Philadelphia Implements the "Largest and Boldest Experiment" in Urban Public Education, 2002-2011 -- Chapter 9. School Officials Close Schools to "Save" Philadelphia's Public School System -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary The Roots of Educational Inequality chronicles the transformation of one American high school over the course of the twentieth century to explore the larger political, economic, and social factors that have contributed to the escalation of educational inequality in modern America
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Germantown High School (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History
Education, Urban -- Economic aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
Education, Secondary -- Economic aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
Educational equalization -- Economic aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
EDUCATION / History
Education, Secondary -- Economic aspects
Education, Urban -- Economic aspects
Educational equalization -- Economic aspects
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812298192
0812298195