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9th Annual Penn Urban Doctoral Symposium (2012) The Roots of Educational Inequality: Germantown High School, 1907-2011TRANSCRIPT
The Roots of Educational Inequality:Germantown High School, 1907-2011
Erika M. Kitzmiller
Dr. Anne Mullikin, University of Pennsylvania ‘22
GGermantown High School, Faculty 1922-1959
February 2007
Germantown High School, 2007
The Roots of Educational Inequality
• Examines the political, social, and economic factors that contributed to the school’s transformation.
• Analyzes daily events rather than key turning points.
• Examines how inequalities were produced and how individuals challenged and resisted them.
Chapter 1:
Campaigning for a Public High School in the Suburban Sanctuary, 1907 - 1914
Chapter 2:
Legitimizing the New High School in an Increasingly Fractured Community, 1914 - 1928
Chapter 3:
The Foundation Begins to Crack, 1929-1937
Chapter 4:
The Rhetoric of Wartime Unity Masks Inequality, 1938 - 1945
Chapter 5:
Meeting the Needs of a “Modern Generation Living in a Modern Age,”1946 - 1957
Chapter 6:
Urban Renewal and Racial Unrest, 1958 - 1967
Findings
• White flight, alone, did not lead to the school’s transformation.
• Philadelphia never allocated enough funding for its schools.
• Private funding for public schools and charitable organizations.
• Educational institutions were sites that both replicated and undermined structural inequalities.
Conclusion
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