In 2007, the National Academy of Education concluded that «early experience in desegregated schools tends to reduce expectations of hostility, improve skills and comfort with interracial settings, and create a tolerance for — if not a preference for — subsequent desegregated educational settings.» (educationnext.org)
«High - stakes testing and charter schools have become the substitute for desegregating schools by race and class, which is the only education reform that has radically closed achievement gaps and improved the education of all students,» Hawkins said. (howiehawkins.org)
Though it was another decade before the first southern school district (in Savannah) was allowed to desegregate its school system with a voluntary magnet - school plan, the new schools were soon opening almost everywhere — or, at least, everywhere that public school systems needed to stem the white - flight resegregation that was overtaking many urban school districts, mostly in the North. (educationnext.org)