Word: orfield
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...There is some evidence, but it's not what we would like to have," said Gary A. Orfield, professor of education and social policy. "The research is very weak in terms of its range and depth compared with the research on school desegregation...
According to Gary A. Orfield, professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education, who recently helped organize a conference on affirmative action, academics have neglected to gather the research necessary to support Powell's assertions under the "strict scrutiny" that federal courts are applying to racial preferences...
...period, the latest for which statistics are available, saw the largest shift back toward segregation for blacks since the landmark 1954 desegregation decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. And black students are not the only ones to suffer increasing isolation. Notes education professor Gary Orfield, co-author of the study: "One of our most sobering findings is that the group that is going to become the predominant minority population in this country, the Latinos, is even more isolated than the blacks. They're being locked into inferior, impoverished schools, and that means their future is threatened." Orfield...
...Gary A. Orfield, professor of education and social policy, the researchers analyzed the racial composition of U.S. public schools from...
Engineered or not, American society is facing "awesome demographic changes," says Harvard's Orfield. "In around 2050 there's going to be about half nonwhites in the total population, in 2020 about half nonwhites in the school population. We have to figure out how to run our institutions in that kind of a society. 'Separate but equal' is the most well-tried experiment in American history. It was policy for 60 years, and we have no evidence that it can work, given the distribution of power and resources in our society...