- Desegregation fundamentally changed the people who lived through it, yet had a more limited impact on the larger society.
- Desegregation made the vast majority of students who attended these schools less racially prejudiced and more comfortable around people of different backgrounds.
- Recommendations:
- 1) Broaden measures of school quality and accountability to include other indicators such as racial diversity
- 2) Amend current public school choice policies, to make then more supportive of people who want racial diversity.
- 3) Increase support for school districts that are trying to maintain desegregated schools.
- 4) Pursue non-education goals such as housing integration and suburb identification to facilitate the creation of more diverse public schools.