In this article, two responses to Diane Ravitch's article, "The "White Flight' Controversy," contained in the Spring issue of The Public Interest, are presented. (AM)

If it is impossible to measure the precise impact of school desegregation on "white flight", it is equally insupportable to claim that there is no effect whatever. Court ordered busing may be the primary stimulus for white flight, but it is impossible to prove that it is the reason for family decisions to remove children from urban…

The data presented in this article suggest that recent migration patterns are contributing much less to white flight than has been suggested by many previous investigators. Differences in segregation between cities are more closely related to birth rate differentials than they are to white flight. (Author/AM)

Examines White enrollment changes in 50 school districts after desegregation. Concludes that White flight seems to accelerate in the first year of implementation, but this is not necessarily true either for phased-in plans, or for districts which encompass larger metropolitan areas with high minority enrollments. (KH)

Among the myths that are discussed are the effects of desegregation/integration on violence, finances, achievement, self confidence, quality education, neighborhood schools, and white flight. (Author/AM)

This report, an analysis of the effects of housing patterns on school desegregation in Jefferson County, Kentucky, was based on data from Multiple Dwelling Reporting forms filed annually by owners and managers of 25 or more apartment units. High school attendance areas were used for geographic reference. Reports indicated that blacks are moving…

In order to determine the effect of school desegregation on White enrollment, the policy impact from two long-term demographic trends among middle class Whites--suburbanization and the declining birth rate--must be isolated. (Author/MC)

The evidence presented in this study of 113 school districts in the United States from 1964 or earlier to 1975-76 suggests that school desegregation has a disintegrative effect during implementation and an integrative effect in post-implementation years. (Author/AM)

The relationship between school desegregation and housing desegregation is the subject of this study, which used official census and school district data from the 25 central cities with black populations over 100,000 in 1980. Both school and housing desegregation were measured with the index of dissimilarity. Results show a clear correlation…

The Section 8 housing assistance program in Jefferson County, Kentucky, is a Federally funded program designed to expand the housing choices of low to moderate income families. This report provides an analysis of all moves made in Jefferson County between 1975 and 1979 by participants in the program, as they relate to the county's school…

This article describes a model which incorporates social, economic, and political variables to explain change in the level of white enrollment for a large number of cities for the period from 1968-1974, with special focus on the impact of school desegregation. (Author/AM)

Notes that racial integration in the most northern urban cities is in a regressional stage. (Author)

Coleman has suggested metropolitan-area busing as an integration method since previous studies have shown that local governments are highly resistant to structural changes. (Author/JM)

The context and effects of desegregation on the racial composition of school districts are described with the characteristics and causes of White flight from the schools involved. Federal and state policy options are presented in terms of desegregation plan design, public information needs, metropolitan-wide programs and incentives for voluntary,…

The purpose of this study was to determine if white flight was occurring as a result of the court-ordered metropolitan busing plan being implemented in Jefferson County, Kentucky. (Author)