But what the data shows is we know if we're looking at test scores, if we're measuring the achievement gap, which is the test score gap between black and white students, that gap was the narrowest at the peak of integration in the school integration, which was 1988. As soon as we start to see the segregation increasing again, that achievement gap increases. And we've actually never gotten back to that low point that we were at when schools were their most integrated.

22 percentage-point decline in the probability of adult incarceration (Figure 13a)

We are trying to imagine and create a way to educate our children for democracy, but must do this in an America that does not yet know the practice of democracy.