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...announced his departure, Orfield called UCLA “a more conducive atmosphere to studying civil rights.”His departure caused 108 GSE doctoral students to submit an open letter to GSE Dean Kathleen McCartney, which led to last week’s meeting. The letter called Orfield??s departure and the recent departure of other professors studying civil rights and race “particularly devastating.”Students’ “academic preparation and future scholarship are at risk...if such issues of critical importance in our increasingly diverse nation...
...Orfield??who has conducted a number of similar studies in the past—argued that as a result of the decision white students are not learning alongside minority students, especially blacks...
Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom said Orfield??s past findings of increased segregation are simply not true, asserting that Orfield examines types of segregation that yield the results he is looking...
Thernstrom further argued that Orfield??s conception of diversity as an essential component of education is flawed...
...very curious view that black or Latino or Asian children cannot learn without a majority of white classmates. It is old-fashioned, liberal ideology,” said Thernstrom, asserting that the logic behind Orfield??s assumption about integration’s potential to improve minority education assumes that blacks and Hispanics must be able to model their white peers in order to have a “proper education...
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