- Good students in high level math and science courses were just as likely to be ignorant about college requirements as students in lower tracks.
- There is a differential impact of level of parental education among ethnic groups. High level of parental education does not provide much protection to disadvantaged American minority students.
- The role of ethnic discrimination played in the creation of ethnic differences in tracking had its major effect in the elementary and middle school years.
- There is a systemic pattern of ignorance among all ethnic groups, and African American and Hispanics are even less aware of the extent to which the tracking system is short-changing them.
- Ignorance can be functional for school personnel even as it leads to disaster on a national scale.
- Initial placement is very likely to be a lasting placement.
- Schools overestimate their ability to asses ability.
- Being at the bottom of the high track appears to bring better educational returns that being at the top of the low track.
- Baby-sitting is not a substitute for education.