Late in 1973 it became evident that the trend of population growth in the U.S. had turned toward rural and small town areas. Growth and migration rates for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas were compared. Counties were classified by certain basic functional characteristics, and the trend was examined in those that were dominated by some…

The nature of b/d confusion by remedial and nonremedial readers at ages seven, eight, nine, and ten was explored using pupils from ten schools in a large, metropolitan school district. Subjects were individually tested to assess reversal tendency in letter naming, word reading, and writing/spelling. Able subjects were also tested in sentence…

Examines the historical patterns and components of the population flows that have contributed to recent metropolitan development in the sunbelt. Examines potential problems and fundamental contradictions inherent in both the continuation and cessation of the population influx. Suggests that these demographic and economic trends may seriously…

Describes the voluntary, interdistrict transfer plan implemented to accomplish desegregation in the public schools in the St. Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area. (GC)

Explores patterns and progress toward achievement of racial housing integration in metropolitan communities--both central city and suburban. (Author/RK)

Presents some summary information from the current study by the United States Department of Agriculture and the University of Georgia. Attention is focused on the needs for job developments in non metropolitan areas if traditional migration patterns are to be halted or reversed and the particular requirements for women in the face of their…

The energy shortage will have a favorable effect on city revitalizing activities as innovative thinking is applied to city and transportation planning, building design, service and recreational facilities, and sewage treatment. (Author/MF)

Examines alternative plans for desegregating schools in a metropolitan context. (JF)

Discusses legal and educational issues arising from the recent desegregation case, Bradley vs the School Board of the City of Richmond. The central theme of the analysis is that the Bradley decision expanded the white majority thesis -- the proposition that whites must be in the majority in all schools in order to achieve equality of educational…

Studies the extent to which market and labor force characteristics, in addition to overt discrimination of employers, contribute to relative occupational position differences between blacks and whites in 25 Southern metropolitan areas. (MF)

One purpose of this essay is to attempt to isolate the theoretical sturcture implicit in the traditional metropolitan reform movement so that empirical research can be organized to examine the warrantability of the propositions contained therein; a second is to pose an alternative theoretical structure derived from work of political economists.…

Discusses implications of two court cases which ordered mergers of urban and suburban school districts in Richmond, Virginia, and Detroit, Michigan. (JF)

1980 census data for the Saint Louis, Missouri, metropolitan area indicated (1) no change in central city desegregation and only a modest decline in suburban segregation; (2) rapid Black population growth in suburbs with low segregation indexes (signifying a possible racial turnover); and (3) repetition of central city segregation patterns in the…