- 1) Frequency and Quality of Intergroup Contact in Interdistrict Magnet Schools: High frequency of intergroup interactions and friendships in interdisctrict magnet schools despite segregation across friendship groups within schools. Black students report less frequent and lower quality intergroup interactions than white students and Hispanic students within the same schools.
- 2) Variation Across Schools: Magnet schools that attract a moderately diverse student body have more friendship segregation, less frequent contact, and more racial tension than schools that attract the most racially and ethnically heterogeneous student bodies.
- 3) Relationship Between the Frequency and Quality of Intergroup Contact and the Goals of Desegregated Schooling: While not causal, the analysis is consistent with the notion that diverse schools with frequent intergroup contact and higher quality intergroup relations do more to promote positive peer environments and positive intergroup attitudes than less fully integrated schools.