Using Socioeconomic-Based Strategies to Further Racial Integration in K-12 Schools – Literature Review
By Dr. Erica Frankenberg for the IDRA EAC-South
This paper surveys the landscape of K-12 integration strategies to understand what is being implemented and what we know about the design and implementation of such policies that might create more diverse schools and reduce racial isolation. It also explores why integration matters and the legal landscape currently around voluntary integration.

Research-Based State and School District Strategies to Create and Maintain Integrated K-12 Schools
By Dr. Erica Frankenberg for the IDRA EAC-South
Maintaining racially and economically integrated schools is crucial in fostering an equitable education environment and carries tremendous academic and social benefits for students and the community. Erica Frankenberg, Ed.D., Pennsylvania State and Director of the Center for Education & Civil Rights, provides integration strategies by and for state and local education agencies pursuing integrated K-12 schools.

Set of Literature Review Summaries and Bibliography
By the Poverty & Race Research Action Council for the IDRA EAC-South
The connection between housing, education and transportation policy is linked to pursuing residential and school integration. Research gathered by the Poverty & Race Research Action Council for the IDRA EAC-South provides a historical analysis of equity disparities in policy and discussion of present strategies to coordinate housing, education and transportation policy in support of school integration.
- Exploring the Connections Between School Integration and Housing, Land Use and Transportation
- School Integration Best Practices – Housing-School-Transportation Policy Collaboration
- School Integration Bibliography – Exploring the Connections Between Housing, Education and Transportation Policy and Related Impacts on Residential and School Integration
