- Summary of court cases dealing with desegregation, affirmative action, special education, gifted and talented education, tracking, bilingual education, school finance.
- Outlines potential consequences of NCLB.
- Stresses the need for social science research dealing with race and education, such research helps to sensitize policymakers to the complexity involved.
- How the law acts around race and education is a mirror for basic law-race relations.
- Institutions must be seeking diversity for pedagogical reasons in order to justify affirmative action. Certainly, in this socio-legal environment, research into the effects of affirmative action, could be useful for public policy and for social scientific understanding.
- The law-race relation in education is not straightforward, varying across domains. Its character differs across the areas of desegregation, affirmative action, special education, tracking, high-stakes accountability, bilingual education, legacy admissions, and other issues, such as grade retention and school discipline. Thus, the law-race relation is manifest in the development of education in the US, and superficial aspects of the relation change over time.