Court-ordered school desegregation, perhaps most famously highlighted by Brown v. Board of Education, has been described as among the most ambitious and controversial social experiments of the past fifty years. But what do we know about the long-run impact of school desegregation on students' lives?

In an engaging TEDx talk, former RSF Visiting Scholar Rucker Johnson, argues that desegregation had a major effect on school quality and yielded substantial increases in educational attainment and adult earnings among black students. Johnson argues that two key non-racial aspects of integration -- an increase in per-pupil spending and a reduction in class sizes among blacks -- played a substantial role in helping black students. Watch below for more: