- It is the combination of demographic processes and population responses to policy interventions (busing) that are at the heart of understanding changes in pupil enrollment.
- School desegregation policy per se did not contribute to residential integration.
- The patterns of moves are not distinguishable from the natural transition of moves into surrounding white neighborhoods that occurs when Black areas expand into surrounding neighborhoods.
- There is little if any direct relationship between student assignments and household relocation behavior.
- It is not even clear that racially balanced schools can stimulate racially balanced neighborhoods.