The paper briefly focuses on two questions: Can the recent growth trend be expected to continue into the future? and What does this imply as far as public policy and programs are concerned? Statistics on growth in the seventies suggest three possibilities: a change in the functions of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas; the decline of the city…

Mentally retarded high school graduates, most of whom live with their parents, tend to make adequate adult adjustments with employment. High school vocational programs for disabled students are underutilized. Gender is statistically related to the employment status of the disabled, who usually work in unskilled service and labor jobs that they…

Conventional school desegregation techniques have failed because they do not redress the root causes of segregation. An alternative approach, controlled choice, maximizes personal choice within an equitable, educationally enhanced system. This approach has been adopted by three school systems and is being reviewed by several more. (VM)

This paper examines the literature in the growing field of education and inequality that is concerned with how individuals sort, and the consequences of this knowledge for the accumulation of human capital, equity, efficiency, and welfare. It argues that how individuals sort across neighborhoods, schools, and households (spouses) can have…

This paper examines the relationship between school and residential segregation, noting that while these two forms of segregation are fundamentally linked, other factors cause them to diverge. The analysis focuses on segregation in 329 metropolitan areas. Data come from the 1998-99 National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data…

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…

Analyzes patterns of polarized socialization among Black and White students in an urban high school in a northeastern industrial area. Finds that polarized socialization occurs under educational and social conditions such as sectioning in schools and residential segregation in the community. (AOS)

Discusses economic factors, personal attitudes, and racial discrimination as causes of residential segregation in Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana. Examines whether school board practices, such as gerrymandering of attendance zones, faculty segregation, use of optional attendance zones, and school construction and placement, have influenced…

Questions the recently developed arguments (per George Kondor and R. Arnott) that rent controls can increase the quantity of housing supplied. Maintains that tenant favorable regulatory programs constrict profit, mobility, development, and construction. Argues that any subsequent increases in housing are due to price discrimination. (MJP)

A study of eight successive freshman cohorts at the University of South Carolina found that both participating in a freshman orientation seminar and living on campus reduced freshman dropout rates. Students who both participated in the seminar and lived on campus had the lowest dropout rate, whereas those who did neither had the highest dropout…

Discusses the barriers to the success of the Yonkers (New York) public school district's desegregation plan. Provides a profile of the district and an explanation of its governance. Presents the plan for desegregation and discusses the financial obstacles to its implementation. Discusses the need for additional aid and assistance. (JS)

Measures black segregation at four geographic levels: state, county, city, and neighborhood, from 1900 to 1990. Cross-references data from the decennial U.S. census with dissimilarity and isolation indices. Concludes that segregation patterns have consistently evolved to minimize white contact with blacks. (MJP)

Traces the development of black-white residential segregation in U.S. cities, and applies the views of Gunnar Myrdal, expressed in the 1940s, to housing trends in the 1980s. While such segregation has decreased, blacks remain more segregated than two other large minority groups (i.e., Hispanics and Asians). Forces influencing residential…

Education and employment outcomes are examined for African-American youth in Chicago (Illinois) whose families moved from mostly African-American urban housing projects to mostly white suburbs or mostly African-American urban areas. The suburban youth's achievement was at least as good as and sometimes better than that of their urban counterparts.…

Using 1980 and 1980 census data, tests hypotheses about the effects of adaptation, assimilation, and disruption on Mexican-origin women's fertility. Fertility declines with greater length of familial exposure to the United States, suggesting that fertility behavior of Mexican Americans will come to resemble that of the general population. (SLD)