The recent literature on school desegregation takes on added significance when viewed from the dramatic and frightening perspective of a summer of widespread rioting. Equality of Educational Opportunity (the Coleman Report), the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights document Racial Isolation in the Public Schools, and Raymond W. Mack's Desegregation and Education: Studies on the Equality of Educational Opportunities Provided for Americans of Different Races in Ten Communities set in bold relief the pivotal role education must play in mitigating the deleterious consequences of racial segregation.