When the fences come down: twenty-first-century lessons from metropolitan school desegregation

Introduction : metropolitan school desegregation, past and present

Background. Why boundary lines matter so much, and what we have done about them ; School policy is housing policy, and vice versa

Analysis. Divergent paths : school and housing desegregation in four southern cities ; Divergent outcomes : the contemporary relationship between school and housing segregation in four southern cities

Solutions. The choice conundrum : challenges and opportunities for voluntary school desegregation policy ; Education and the regional agenda

Afterword / with Gary Orfield.