Vanishing Schools, Threatened Communities

Table of Contents

• Vanishing Schools Threatened Communities 1
• Vanishing Schools Threatened Communities 3
• The Contested Schoolhouse in Maritime Canada 3
• Paul W. Bennett 3
• Contents 5
• Acknowledgements 9
• Introduction 11
• Chapter 1 13
• Schoolhouses and Communities An Endangered Heritage 13
• Endangered Community Schoolhouses 15
• Rise of the Administrative Education State 15
• Compulsory Schooling and System Expansion 18
• Educrats and the Ideology of Consolidation 20
• The Onslaught of Modernist Education 22
• Historic Preservation The American Example 24
• Revival of the Small Schools Movement 25
• Notes 26
• Chapter 2 30
• The Advent of the Modern Education State 30
• The School Promoters and the Common School System 31
• Advancing Common Schooling on Contested Terrain 35
• The Drive for Compulsory School Attendance 38
• Schooling for the New Social Order 41
• Notes 42
• Chapter 3 45
• The Rural One-Room Schoolhouse 45
• Folklore and Reality 46
• Early Rural Schooling 48
• The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Crisis 51
• Expanding the Rural School System 52
• The Not So Good Old Days 56
• The Spectre of Consolidation and Rural Resistance 58
• Limits of Rural School Reform 60
• Out with the Pitiable Beggar 62
• The Rural Small School Ethos 65
• Notes 66
• Chapter 4 72
• The Urban Palace Schools 72
• Building Splendid Little Schoolhouses 73
• Symbols of Education Progress 75
• Destructive Impact of School Fires 81
• The Urban School as a Civic Institution 82
• Arrival of the Modern High School 85
• Onset of Modernism 87
• Notes 88
• Chapter 5 91
• Modernization Surviving the Onslaught of Progress 91
• The Idea of Education Progress 92
• Progressivism and Its Discontents 94
• Thunderclap of Dissent 96
• The Progressive Storm 98
• Curriculum Breakdown in High School Education 100
• The Accelerated Impact of Technological Change 102
• Modern School Design and Progressive Ideals 103
• Neglected School Communities 106
• Notes 108
• Chapter 6 111
• Consolidation Bureaucracy and the People 111
• Modernizing Forces and the Contested Countryside 111
• The Rural Problem 113
• Composite High School Movement 114
• Advancing the Bureaucratic Education State 116
• The Financial Squeeze and the Teachers Strike 118
• Base Gagetown Clearance 119
• The Relentless Force of School Consolidation 121
• Consolidation as Organizational Panacea 123
• The Big Wave Consolidation in the Sixties 124
• Rise of One Big System Thinking 126
• Triumph of the Three Bs Bigger Better and Bureaucracy 127
• Notes 131
• Chapter 7 135
• Retrenchment Declining Enrolment and School Closures 135
• The Spectre of Declining Enrolment 136
• Community Resistance and Solidarity 137
• Digby School Crisis 138
• Ragged Islands School Wars 140
• School Choice for the Middle Class 142
• Nova Scotias Education Blitzkrieg 142
• The McKenna Steamroller 145
• The P3 Schools Controversy 147
• Halifax-Dartmouth Schools in Crisis 149
• Tower Road School Closure and Rebirth 150
• Truro Battle for Heritage Schools 151
• Notes 154
• Chapter 8 158
• The School Savers and Their Mission 158
• Pulling against Gravity 159
• Rural Small Schools Movement 162
• The Moratorium on School Closures 164
• Fires and other Acts of God 165
• The School Savers and Their Motivations 166
• The Provincial Moratorium and Its Impact 169
• Consoldations Final Frontier 170
• Save Community Schools Alliance 172
• A Disposable Architectural Legacy 174
• Notes 176
• Epilogue 179
• Restoring and Humanizing Public Education 179
• Rise of the Shopping Mall Schools 180
• Emerging Design Models for the Twenty-First Century 181
• Rural Schooling and the Future 182
• The Muffled Public Voice in Education 185
• The Unsettled Schoolhouse 187
• Drifting into Our Education Future 188
• Notes 191
• Index 193