Southern Cities, Southern Schools: Public Education in the Urban South

by David Plank and Rick Ginsberg

Historians of urban education have concentrated their attention on the cities of the Northeast, leaving a major gap in the historiography of American schooling. This work, the first to focus on southern cities, makes an important contribution to the field. It presents case studies of growth and change in the public school systems of six cities in the deep South, together with several essays that place the southern experience in a comparative historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313262977
• ISBN13: 9780313262975
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.7"