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instruction, resources & composition

Desegregation produced lasting gains for Black students

Court-ordered school desegregation produced lasting improvements in Black students' educational attainment, earnings, and health, and contemporary school segregation is associated with wider racial achievement gaps — largely because segregation concentrates minority students in under-resourced, high-poverty schools, rather than through racial composition per se.

Evidence: ModerateConsensus: Established Certified

early-childhood programs

Head Start's test gains fade; adult benefits persist

Head Start produces immediate gains in school-readiness skills that largely "fade out" on test scores within a few years, yet quasi-experimental and long-run studies find meaningful adult benefits — more schooling, better health, higher economic self-sufficiency — with effects largest for the most disadvantaged children; whether and why early gains translate into durable adult outcomes remains actively debated.

Evidence: ModerateConsensus: Contested