Focusing on the city of Atlanta from 1972 to 2012, Halting White Flight explores the neighborhood-based movement to halt white flight from the city’s public schools. While the current historiography traces the origins of modern conservatism to white families’ abandonment of the public schools and the city following court-ordered desegregation, this dissertation presents a different narrative of white flight. As thousands of white families fled the city for the suburbs and private schools, a small, core group of white mothers, who were southerners returning from college or more often migrants to the South, founded three organizations in the late seventies: the Northside Atlanta Parents for Public Schools, the Council of Intown Neighborhoods and Schools, and Atlanta Parents and Public Linked for Education. By linking their commitment to integration and vision of public education to the future economic growth and revitalization of the city’s neighborhoods, these mothers organized campaigns that transformed three generations’ understanding of race and community and developed an entirely new type of community activism.

Focusing on the city of Atlanta from 1972 to 2012, Halting White Flight explores the neighborhood-based movement to halt white flight from the city’s public schools. While the current historiography traces the origins of modern conservatism to white families’ abandonment of the public schools and the city following court-ordered desegregation, this dissertation presents a different narrative of white flight. As thousands of white families fled the city for the suburbs and private schools, a small, core group of white mothers, who were southerners returning from college or more often migrants to the South, founded three organizations in the late seventies: the Northside Atlanta Parents for Public Schools, the Council of Intown Neighborhoods and Schools, and Atlanta Parents and Public Linked for Education. By linking their commitment to integration and vision of public education to the future economic growth and revitalization of the city’s neighborhoods, these mothers organized campaigns that transformed three generations’ understanding of race and community and developed an entirely new type of community activism.

This dissertation examines the relationship between school choice and race. I examine whether the racial composition of schools influences choices and whether choices of private and public choice schools lead to greater segregation and stratification in neighborhood schools. I improve on existing research by adopting the theoretical framework used in neighborhood preferences literature to distinguish between race and race-associated reasons as motivations for avoiding racially integrating schools. This study utilizes geocoded data from the Philadelphia Area Study (PAS) and elementary school catchment maps to examine families' preferences and behaviors in the context of the actual conditions of their assigned schools. Catchment maps are integrated with Census data to determine whether choice schools have a role in white flight and segregation and stratification in neighborhood schools. The findings suggest that families are most likely to avoid neighborhood schools with high proportions of racial minorities. However, attitudes regarding racial climates are more consistent predictors of preferences than the actual racial composition of local schools. Highly segregated neighborhood schools satisfy families who desire racially homogeneous school climates, as do private schools. Families who seek diverse environments are more likely to look to charter and magnet schools. The white flight analysis shows that whites are more likely to leave schools that have modest proportions of black students, and less likely to leave schools that are already integrated. These results suggest that whites react especially strongly to schools with low levels of integration, and those who remain in the few racially balanced schools do so out of a preference for diversity or because they do not have the resources to leave. Public choice schools spur white flight in urban areas, but actually reduce flight in suburban schools. Finally, I find that choice schools do not uniformly affect the degree to which racial groups are spatially segregated from whites, and they also do not uniformly affect the degree to which racial groups attend more or less disadvantaged schools than whites. This suggests that segregation and stratification are two distinct aspects of racial inequality and should be considered separately when evaluating the effectiveness of choice programs. / Sociology

abstract: The term "White flight" and its effects are well documented in large urban city centers. However, few studies consider the same effects on smaller American communities. This case study investigates Lexington, Nebraska, a rural community of approximately 10,000 citizens, that has experienced a population influx of minorities in the last 25 years. The population shift has increased the representation of Hispanic, Asian, and now Somali students in the Lexington Public School system, which, in turn, has been accompanied by a dramatic decrease in White, Anglo students. This study attempts to identify and describe the reasons for the exodus of White students from the public school setting. Possible reasons that might explain the decreases in White student enrollment may include overcrowding in schools, unsafe school environments, and/or less one-on-one attention with classroom teachers. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ed.D. Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2011

abstract: "White flight" is a sociological phenomenon where White members depart urban neighborhoods or schools predominantly populated by minorities, and move to places like suburbs or commuter towns. A huge limitation in White flight research does not account for communities in rural America. The rural community of Garden City, Kansas, is of particular interest because of its shift in demographics over the years. Garden City has transformed dramatically with the arrival of immigrants to staff meatpacking plants and their children who attend the Garden City Public School District. In the last eighteen years, the Garden City Public School District has experienced a 204% growth in Hispanic student enrollment while simultaneously experiencing a 54% decline in White student enrollment. The exodus of White students from the Garden City Public School District is the focus of this research. The findings of this study indicate that White flight exists in the Garden City Public School District primarily as a product of racism due to White community constituents' feelings of xenophobia and ethnophobia toward Garden City's minority populations. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ed.D. Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2011

Det primära syftet med denna studie har varit att uppmärksamma hur sittande politiker på olika nivåer ser på segregation, nämligen orsaker, konsekvenser och lösningar. Två teorier som handlar om preferenser hos majoritetsbefolkning står i centrum, dessa är så kallade flight-och avoidance-teorier som säger att en etnisk majoritet flyttar ut/undviker att flytta in i multietniskaområden. För att gå på djupet och besvara frågor utförligt har semi-strukturerade intervjuer med sittande politiker genomförts i syfte att erhålla gruppens syn på utbredning av segregation i Sverige. Intervjuer har kompletterats med innehållsanalys av två policydokument för att uppmärksamma hur fenomenet framställs av myndigheter. Trots att respondenter lägger vikt vid socioekonomiska förhållanden hos olika grupper i syfte att förklara orsaker och konsekvenser av segregationen får teorin om avoidance-beteende stöd. Resultatet visar även att flight-beteende inte är lika relevant nuförtiden, dock har den observerats av vissa politiker under 1990-talet, i stället är det huvudsakligen avoidance-beteende som leder till att segregation består.

In the mid-nineteenth century, with the influx of European immigrants into the cities, public schools became the answer to the poverty and ignorance of the urban masses. Then, in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, urban public schools were again called on to educate the many African-Americans who migrated to the cities from poor Southern states. Again, the idea of mass education of the public, funded by the public, became the panacea for all the problems of city living. The civil rights movement brought a flood of litigation, and courts attempted to provide equal educational opportunities to all students, even those in poor urban localities. Currently, urban public schools face the flight of middle-income families from the cities to the suburbs, within-district flight of more affluent families to private and parochial schools, and diminishing funds with which they must serve their populations. This study explored the factors that would influence middle-income families to return or remain in urban public schools to restore the original concept of a public education for all by all (Hunter & Donahoo, 2003) / Ed. D.

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School is compulsory for all children aged between 6 and 16 in Sweden. It is a second home for all children. School segregation is essentially a question of importance in today's society. School segregation shows that the crucial factors leading to school being divided is due to factors such as family background (ethnicity) and socio-economic situation. Therefore, it contradicts the social cohesion and quality that schools strive for. Thus, possibly resulting in schools not maintaining an equally consistent quality because in some school’s children perform better than others. Hence, in the teaching profession, we believe that the school's social cohesion and working methods have very important functions for creating quality in the presentation of the right knowledge and good community. Consequently, this is the reason why we chose to investigate further what research says about school segregation. School segregation is a relevant societal topic to raise in the teaching profession. In order to be able to counteract and know the conditions of the schools, one must have sufficient underlying knowledge about what it is that affects the school's quality. Thus, in this study we want to furthermore explain what school segregation research reports in Sweden. This research overview has managed to collect from search engines like Swepub, Libris and governmental websites as IFAU and Skolverket ten scientific reports on school segregation that have later been discussed further, and a conclusion has been drawn on the project work. The conclusion that we can draw from this research overview work is that there is a rich amount of information sources about school segregation which one can take part in. They are very similar in the form of the presentation about the causes of school segregation, as well as consequences that a larger project work can be very useful from.

The photographic series Ideal Cities that I started in 2011 is inspired by the conflict between my idea of the “west” and my evolving experience in the United States. What struck me was the popularity of what I see as model experience – a spatial experience controlled by the Spectacle. In the terms of the Situationist International and its most prominent figure Guy Debord, the Spectacle is the collapse of reality into the streams of images, products and activities sanctioned by centralized monopolist business or state bureaucracy. Thus, personal experience is replaced with preconceived notions, which control the way people perceive and understand their surroundings.