The ethnic and racial makeup of the United States has changed during the last several decades. Scholars have qualitatively shown how these changes affect school districts but have not identified their scale. We examine residential demographic change using a novel dataset derived from a geographic technique that leverages satellite imagery with…

I examine several potential explanations for recent evidence showing a lack of improvement in the academic achievement of children participating in several poverty reduction residential mobility programs. Detailed interviews and field notes about the relocation and school experiences of 80 children in the Gautreaux II residential mobility program…

Birmingham, like many cities, is losing its White middle class and is pressed to provide services for those who remain. The city's survival will depend on meeting specific educational goals. The mayor would welcome a Democratic president whose policies would focus on cities. (DM)

"White flight" from desegregated schools is most likely to occur in city districts with a high proportion of minority students surrounded by largely white suburbs. Enrollment data from 1956 to 1974 for the Kansas City, Missouri Public Schools indicates that white enrollment decline tended to accelerate in schools with many black students…

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)

Criticizes current research for equating declining urban school enrollments with White flight. Describes a study conducted in Louisville (Jefferson County), Kentucky, in which birth rate decline and ongoing out-migration variables were considered. Shows that many White families, rather than leaving the community, actually transferred their…

This book provides an in-depth analysis of urban education and related issues. The issues examined are not only fundamentally important for urban education, but in addition, several issues that have recently become prominent in considering the future of big cities are discussed. For instance, the effects of desegregation on middle class enrollment…

The conditions that students, parents, teachers, and administrators experienced are a product of economic, political, and social influences that impact the day-to-day operation of urban schools. One cannot understand the context of urban schools in the United States without considering the economic, political, and social influences that have made…

Using data from 63 public school districts serving central cities, this paper addresses the issue of whether whites' utilization of alternate forms of schooling is racially motivated. An effort is made to determine whether residence in census tract units of varying racial composition influences white out-migration and white utilization of…

Argues how the nation's inner-city population exodus and economic decay is a result of modern liberal social policy. Three failures of liberalism regarding inner cities are examined: the failure to nurture the sources of economic growth; the failure to understand urban neighborhoods; and the failure to appreciate the importance of a strong moral…

At the end of two decades of integration efforts, America's urban schools have been completely re-segregated by White flight to the suburbs, and our nation is still blighted by a deep-seated segregationist mentality among Whites who continue to dread contact with the Black and the poor. (Author/SJL)

Investigates students' reasons for migrating from an urban to a suburban community college district as reported in the college choice literature and a three-campus survey. Migrating students rated academic factors highest, safety of moderate importance, and proximity of less importance. Transfer patterns and attitudes were similar across ethnic…

This presentation by James S. Coleman examines several questions: Does desegregation bring about loss of whites from schools in a desegregated system? If so, what is the extent of that loss? And what are the conditions, in the demography and ecology of the system, as well as in the form of the desegregation policy, which affect the extent of that…

Demographic trends are developing in Connecticut that show increasing racial segregation and divided educational facilities in contiguous urban and suburban school districts. Racial balance on a statewide basis is not sufficient to counteract the effects of the growth of the state's minority populations, the residential clustering of racial/ethnic…

School segregation is part of the cause and part of the effect of the metropolitan racial crisis. Metropolitan area school desegregation is a necessary element of any concerted attack on the complex of metropolitan racial problems. School desegregation is not, however, sufficient by itself. The author of this paper discusses metropolitan school…