When his grandmother faced a line of people spitting on her during her first day of teaching at an all-white school, a young Roland Fryer gained his first insights into American integration.
Through personal experience and research, the Harvard economist examines how social patterns persist in integrated schools and what actually shapes student success. Is it the ideal racial mix in the student population? Or is it something else entirely?
His surprising conclusion challenges our assumptions about educational progress.
Read Roland Fryer's Wall Street Journal op-ed, "The Economics of Integration" here.