Political boundaries have historically been used to both segregate and integrate populations by social characteristics. Researchers have investigated the concentration of poverty, yet less attention has been given to the concentration of affluence, despite growing income segregation of the affluent from middle and low-income households. While the…

This paper focuses on how shifting conceptions of youth underpinned young people's activism in the 1950s and 1960s. This paper specifically examines conceptions of youth as it changed throughout the twentieth century. G. Stanley Hall articulated a distinct notion of "adolescence" in the early twentieth century. But the "Scottsboro…

This study explores the effect of school location (city or county) on the relationship between four independent variables (number of private schools, existence of social elite enrolled in private schools, private school affiliation, and private school type) and a series of eight attitudinal items tapping public school superintendents' ideas on two…

This study explores the relationship between attitudes of public school superintendents and the amount of direct experience they have had dealing with the development of private academies in their respective school districts. The dependent variables consist of eight attitudinal items. The first four deal with potential reasons for the return of…

This study is an exploratory research effort dealing specifically with the relationship between six independent variables (number of private schools, city or county school district, metropolitan or nonmetropolitan location of schools, private school affiliation, private school types, existence of social elite enrolled in private schools) and a…