Desegregation succeeds when policy gives white and minority students shared incentives

Evidence

While the freedom of choice plan allowed old biases to remain in the school system and “forced busing” met adamant resistance because it provided no incentives for the white students to desegregate, the magnet school program provides benefits for both white and minority students and should be looked to as the means to desegregating the American schools. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 3

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: incentive design as the real lever in integration policy — compulsion breeds backlash, mutual benefit endures.
• XREF: connects to: Judge-imposed racial desegregation can take root where most whites accept it — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 106