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Unraveling The Geographies Of The U.S. Public Education System: An Analysis Of Scale, Segregation, And Hegemony, Olivia Ildefonso

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Other than one or two studies that focus on specific state-wide systems of public education, there has been no accounting for how the U.S. public education system came about in relation to space and scale. My dissertation research seeks to fill in this gap. Through focusing on the development of public education in the North and the South, I provide a foundation for understanding the grounded and contested processes of scale production that largely determined the U.S. public education system’s design and function.

In each of the seven chapters, I detail how fights over the structure and purpose of public …

Transafrica Forum Issue Brief

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A Research and Educational Affiliate of TransAfrica. 6 pages. Volume 3, No. 2

Transafrica Forum Issue Brief

TransAfrica Documents

A Research and Educational Affiliate of TransAfrica. 16 pages. Volume 2, Nos. 10 and 11

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A Research and Educational Affiliate of TransAfrica. 15 pages. Volume 2, Nos. 5 and 6.

Transafrica Forum Issue Brief

TransAfrica Documents

A Research and Educational Affiliate of TransAfrica | The Black American Lobby for Africa and the Caribbean. Volume 1, No. 1. 6 pages.