- Racial and socioeconomic desegregation of schools is more likely to command the support of the majority if it improves the life chances of disadvantaged students far more than it hurts the life chances of advantaged students.
- Students who attend high-SES schools are less likely to drop out of high school between the 10th and 12th grades and that girls who attend high-SES schools are less likely to have a child between the tenth and twelfth grades than students with the same family background who attend lower-SES schools.
- White students who attend predominantly Black or predominantly Hispanic schools are more likely to drop out and more likely to have a child than White students with the same family background who attend predominantly White high schools.
- Among Black and Hispanic students, however, the effect of attending predominately Black schools on both dropping out and teenage fertility is largely accounted for by the low mean socioeconomic status of these schools.
- A change in school SES has a greater absolute effect on dropping out and teenage fertility for low-SES students than for high-SES students. But it also has a greater absolute effect for White students than for Black or Hispanic students.