The Disintegration of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee: School District Secession and Local Control in the 21st Century

Autor/inn/en	Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve; Diem, Sarah; Frankenberg, Erica
Titel	The Disintegration of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee: School District Secession and Local Control in the 21st Century
Quelle	In: American Educational Research Journal, 55 (2018) 4, S.651-692 (42 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-8312
DOI	10.3102/0002831217748880
Schlagwörter	School Districts; Case Studies; Qualitative Research; Suburban Schools; Educational Change; Educational History; Elementary Secondary Education; Advantaged; Political Attitudes; Politics of Education; Social Differences; Racial Segregation; Educational Resources; Resource Allocation; Laws; Educational Policy; Racial Attitudes; Racial Bias; Interviews; Administrator Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Metropolitan Areas; School District Reorganization; School District Autonomy; Tennessee (Memphis) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School district; Schulbezirk; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Qualitative Forschung; Suburban area; Outskirts; Suburb; School; Schools; Vorort; Vorstadt; Schule; Bildungsreform; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Sozialer Unterschied; Rassentrennung; Bildungsmittel; Ressourcenallokation; Law; Recht; Politics of education; Rassenfrage; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Lehrerverhalten; Ballungsraum; School districts; Autonomy; School autonomy; Schulautonomie
Abstract	In this qualitative case study, we explore the political impulses behind suburban secession from the 2013 Memphis-Shelby County merger, the largest school district consolidation in recent history. Decades removed from the Civil Rights Movement, during a period of stark inequality, colorblind law and policymaking, and a diminished understanding of education as a societal benefit, the central suburban rationale for secession, local control, carries new weight. It gives already privileged communities a race-neutral, legally sanctioned, and politically persuasive way to discuss resource accumulation that maps onto existing racial and economic segregation. Memphis-area lessons offer insight into an increasing number of secession struggles and enrich our understanding of how educational advantage is consolidated in the 21st-century metropolis. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01