Attitudes Toward Diversity and the School Choice Process: Middle-Class Parents in a Segregated Urban Public School District

White flight from urban public schools has been well documented, but little attention has been paid to middle-class reinvestment in urban schools. This article combines findings from interviews with middle-class parents of Boston Public School students with demographic data from the city’s public el...

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Boston, Massachusetts
Children
Demographics
Elementary School Students
Elementary Schools
Enrollment Trends
Etiology
Family
Interviews
Massachusetts
Middle Class
Neighborhood Schools
Parent Attitudes
Parents
Participant Characteristics
Peer Influence
Public Schools
Racial Attitudes
Racial Composition
Racial Distribution
Racial Segregation
School Choice
School districts
Schools
Social Attitudes
Student attitudes
Student Diversity
Students
Urban Areas
Urban Schools
Whites
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