This policy brief provides a review of the social science evidence on the housing-school nexus, highlighting the problem of reoccurring racial segregation and inequality absent strong, proactive federal or state integration policies. Three areas of research are covered: (a) the nature of the housing-school nexus; (b) the impact of school…

Study of desegregation efforts in the Oklahoma Independent School District and residence patterns in the Oklahoma City metropolitan region reveals that desegregated schools do not lead to desegregated housing: there is little if any direct relationship between student assignments and household relocation behavior. (BJV)

Summarizes the latest research on segregation within and between districts and on the relationships between desegregation attempts and "white flight." (IRT)

Previous studies of the residential succession process have described the patterns of succession in terms of stages defined either by the responses of the residents or by the percent of black population occupying the area. The present study approaches the investigation from an operational point of view, using a microscopic technique of data…

The contents of this compilation of information on desegregation activities in Philadelphia, funded under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, section 405, are organized in 11 parts, as follows: (1) Introduction, (2) Description of School District of Philadelphia, (3) Housing Patterns as a Factor in Desegregation, (4) Map Depicting Racial…

This document includes five articles: (1) "Supt. Hornbeck blasts ten school busing myths, sells system to area realtors," by Tom Livingston and reprinted from the Pasadena "Star-News," Nov. 17, 1971. (2) "How can transportation be assigned so as to limit the burden of busing?", including an introduction by Kathleen…

Lists 69 annotated entries of writings between 1973 and 1982 on the social, political, and economic effects of Brown v Board of Education. (CMG)

This description of the accomplishments and shortcomings of one school desegregation plan provides insights into much broader dialogue on the role of race in America. St. Louis (Missouri) and its suburbs demographically resemble many midsized contemporary metropolitan areas in the United States. What makes St. Louis unique is an urban-suburban…

This report presents a study carried out in the near southside Chicago community of South Commons. The site was chosen because it was considered planned, heterogeneous, and located in the inner-city. The analysis is based on preliminary work carried out in the summer of 1973. This project focuses on the social and physical construction of…

The available literature on white flight, or, more properly, school resegregation -- the phenomenon of white withdrawal (total or partial) from desegregated schools -- is reviewed in this paper which also reports some new research in this area. The distinction is made between those schools located on the fringes of the inner city, which first…