| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.1

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There Goes the Neighborhood: Rural School Consolidation at the Grass Roots in Early Twentieth-Century Iowa. By David R. Reynolds. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1999. xii, 306 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-87745-693-3.)

At the turn of the twentieth century, American country schools came under attack from Progressive reformers—the country life movement, progressive education, and educational centralizers—who wanted to extend the reach of modern schooling by rebuilding the pedagogy and curriculum, social roles, and administrative structure of rural education. The source of inadequate education in the rural United States, they believed, was community control, as embodied in the traditional one-room school. Relying on bureaucracy generally and consolidated schools specifically, rural reformers sought to modernize the nineteenth-century common school. Yet rural Americans very often resisted their innovations. Untangling those developments, the geographer David R. Reynolds seeks to explain "why resistance occurred where it did," why it "took the particular forms that it did," and "what set of values . . . farmers [were] fighting for or against." . . .

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