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In The Fight for Local Control, Campbell F. Scribner demonstrates how, in the decades after World War II, suburban communities appropriated legacies of rural education to assert their political autonomy and in the process radically changed educational law.
Campbell F. Scribner is Assistant Professor of Education at Ohio Wesleyan University.
"An excellent book forces the reader into such thorny terrain, and Scribner's important and meticulously researched study clearly does that. In sum, his brilliantly argued book should seriously interest this journal’s readers, and its careful and accessible prose also makes it suitable for advanced undergraduates in both history and education policy programs."
Robert D. Johnston, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon:
"Campbell F. Scribner's complex analysis discovers in rural/suburban school politics not just the foundation for much of twentieth-century educational policy, but more generally the grounding of many of the most critical political and legal trends in modern American history. The Fight for Local Control is broad-minded in its intellectual orientation, admirable in its decades-long chronological sweep, deeply respectful of all the actors and ideologies involved, impressively original in its perspective, and worthy of sustained civic consideration. This excellent book will find a broad audience among historians, educational policymakers, and even ordinary citizens."
Andrew Hartman, Illinois State University, author of A War for the Soul of America:
"The Fight for Local Control is an elegantly written, impressively researched, and persuasively argued history of how the twentieth-century struggle for local control of schools was deeply enmeshed in the politics of suburbanization and also, adding a compelling historiographical twist, the politics of rural consolidation. With a small-'d' democratic sensibility, Campbell F. Scribner shows that a deeper understanding of this history might help us transcend the false choice between community and equality. Must reading for historians, educational specialists, and citizens who care about schools and democracy!"
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela:
"Especially for a first book based on a dissertation, the reach of The Fight for Local Control—spanning multiple cities and towns across a half-century in realms from court cases to curriculum controversy to fiscal and union politics—is impressive and, at moments, astonishing.... Scholars of history, education, politics, and policy are lucky this important volume exists."
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