- Race still matters. Great caution in abandoning school integration as a mechanism to close the racial gap.
- Both the racial composition of a school and whether a school was Black segregated predicted the percentage of students passing the FCAT (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test).
- Policies that attempt to resolve the achievement gap by funding equity or classroom size changes may not be successful if they do not accept the premise of Brown – that integration is fundamental to ensuring educational equality.
- Using accountability mechanisms to evaluate schools and dole out incentives and disincentives without taking into account the racial distribution of students is clearly unfair and probably will not maximize the efficiency of such initiatives in accomplishing their objectives.