- The mean effect size for verbal achievement including all the studies in the set is .14 and for math it is .04. These results appear to indicate that verbal achievement improves somewhat, but math achievement show little effect as a result of desegregation.
- The author believes it is the complexity more than any other factor that accounts for the diverse results that have been observed in studies of the effects of desegregation on achievement.
- Studies demonstrate that while simply mixing students of different groups in desegregated schools does not improve race relations, intergroup relations can be improved in desegregated schools by introducing special programs designed to achieve this goal.