- Segregated neighborhoods have negative consequences for black and Latino students.
- Social networks (family and friends) of Blacks and Latinos are more likely than those of Whites or Asians to experience stressful life events.
- Greater family stress, poorer health, and greater involvement in family affairs negatively affect academic achievement of minority students.
- Most of the Black-White performance gap remains unexplained even after accounting for segregation, its sequella, and socioeconomic background.
- Whites generally came from neighborhoods that were overwhelmingly white (86 percent) and inhabited by a only sprinkling of Asians (5 percent), African Americans (5 percent), and Latinos (3 percent). Asians were more likely than Whites to share a neighborhood with other Asians (19 percent), but about as unlikely as whites to share residential space with African Americans or Latinos.
- African-American students generally experienced more death than other students from other groups, and that the degree of exposure varied by level of segregation.
- 43 percent of whites, 37 percent of Asians, and 49 percent of Latinos experienced a potentially stressful family event, compared with 50 percent of African Americans from integrated neighborhoods, 55 percent of those from mixed neighborhoods, and 57 percent of those from segregated neighborhoods.
- Segregation appears to affect family involvement indirectly through the intervening variable of family stress: neighborhood racial isolation raises the number of negative events experienced within the family, which, in turn, causes respondents to devote more time and resources to family issues.
- Whereas socioeconomic and demographic variables continued to be held constant at overall means, we assumed a neighborhood composition of 90 percent minority and indices of stress, family involvement, and health problems set at two standard deviations above the mean. Under these circumstances, the predicted grade point drops to 2.9, a 14 percent differential compared with whites.