ABSTRACT
The American educational system is beset with anachronisms. Like the American political system and many associated administrative systems the educational system splits the nation into states, states into districts, and districts into neighborhoods. Rural counties that lose all of their Negro grade school graduates to the nearby cities have their average educational level lowered. But these migrants may be poorly educated by the standards of urban Negroes, thus lowering the average educational level of the city. Current evidence suggests that newer and smaller cities are heading in the direction of these older and larger places, but they have not all reached the same point. In many of these places, the suburban populations are not superior to city populations in average levels of education, occupation or income. There are many types of residential segregation, but it is racial segregation that currently poses the most difficult problems for education.
