The nation and its public school enrollment are in the midst of dramatic racial change (Frey, 2001; Orfield, 2009). Soon, the nation's public schools will enroll a majority of non-White students, a demographic reality that has already occurred in the two largest regions of the country, the South and the West. As the nation's enrollment grows more…

School segregation is part of the cause and part of the effect of the metropolitan racial crisis. Metropolitan area school desegregation is a necessary element of any concerted attack on the complex of metropolitan racial problems. School desegregation is not, however, sufficient by itself. The author of this paper discusses metropolitan school…