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Diverse Housing, Diverse Schooling: How Policy Can Stabilize Racial Demographic Change in Cities and Suburbs
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Wells, Amy Stuart – National Education Policy Center, 2015
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…
Descriptors: Housing, School Desegregation, Desegregation Effects, Racial Bias
Policy, Practice and the "Revolving Classroom Door": Examining the Relationship between Aboriginal Spatiality and the Mainstream Education System
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Prout, Sarah – Australian Journal of Education, 2009
Indigenous academic outcomes are in many ways negotiated at the interface between student spatialities--including their residential patterns and choices--and the mainstream school system. The current model of education delivery rewards regular attendance at well resourced schools. Conversely, sporadic interactions with under-resourced schools…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Residential Patterns, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
Residency Patterns and Secondary Migration of Refugees: A State of the Information Paper.
Forbes, Susan – 1984
This paper synthesizes available research regarding the residence patterns of refugees in the United States. Information is presented on both initial placement and secondary migration. The first section traces the evolution of U.S. policy and outcomes from 1945 to the start of the Indochinese resettlement program in 1975. The second section…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Indochinese, Land Settlement, Migration Patterns
The State of Chicano Research in Family, Labor and Migration Studies. Proceedings of the Stanford Symposium on Chicano Research and Public Policy (1st, Stanford, California, March 3-5, 1982).
Valdez, Armando, Ed; And Others – 1983
Symposium organizers commissioned papers that examined existing Chicano research in studies of family, labor, and migration, three subjects continually recurring in Chicano research. The papers were organized in four sessions: historical and contemporary research on Chicano workers, foundations of research on Chicano families, Chicano domestic and…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Family Characteristics, Immigrants, Labor Force
Kentucky Demographics: Demographic and Economic Impacts of Migration in Kentucky, 1975-80. No. 11.
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Price, Michael – 1985
This analysis of demographic and economic impacts of migration compared samples of nonmigrants, inmigrants, and outmigrants for Kentucky from 1975 to 1980. Age, gender, race, birth place, educational attainment, income, and labor force characteristics were compared for the three groups. Inmigrants, including intrastate migrants, were compared on…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Factors, Educational Attainment, Income
Inmigration to Maine. Motivations for Moving, Satisfactions, Participation.
Ploch, Louis A. – 1985
Out-of-state persons moving to Maine during the July through December period of either 1980 or 1983 were queried to determine why they chose Maine, what their levels of satisfaction were with life in Maine, and in what activities they participated or planned to participate. The majority of the 417 survey respondents were from large counties in the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Satisfaction, Family Mobility, Geographic Location