Sentences with phrase «of white flight»

After decades of white flight to the suburbs, people are moving back to the urban core.

Between 1968 and 1980, segregation by district increased, reflecting the effects of both white flight from desegregation and longer - term trends, including suburbanization.

Both sought to achieve these objectives while preserving their commitment to other educational goals, e.g., districtwide commitment to high quality public schools, increased pupil assignment to neighborhood schools, diminished use of busing, greater student choice, reduced risk of white flight, and so forth.

Private schools essentially create the segregation equivalent of white flight to the suburbs, without the physical «flight.»

This effort peaked in the 1980s and since then, schools have become re-segregated in no small part because of white flight.

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

The required ratio of whites to blacks in each of the Columbus schools explains why there was not an immediate and quick episode of white flight in Columbus.

To sow the seed of white flight, a real estate agent would sometimes buy a house in a block and then resell it to a black family.

Gates grew up in West Chicago, where he witnessed the economic and social violences of white flight.

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles.