When the fences come down : twenty-first-century lessons from metropolitan school desegregation /
Genevieve Siegel-Hawley.
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages ): illustrations, maps.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : metropolitan school desegregation, past and present -- Background. Why boundary lines matter so much, and what we have done about them ; School policy is housing policy, and vice versa -- Analysis. Divergent paths : school and housing desegregation in four southern cities ; Divergent outcomes : the contemporary relationship between school and housing segregation in four southern cities -- Solutions. The choice conundrum : challenges and opportunities for voluntary school desegregation policy ; Education and the regional agenda -- Afterword / with Gary Orfield.
9781469627854
School integration--History--Southern States--21st century. Education, Urban--History--Southern States--21st century.