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...Gary Orfield, co-director of the Civil Rights Project, challenged Boston...
Professor of Education and Social Policy Gary A. Orfield calls Huntington’s essay “a disgraceful example of the kind of anti-immigrant attitudes that appear recurrently in American history...
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...
...citing the same statistics used by Orfield, Thernstrom said that trends which appear to show resegregation are simply a function of declining white enrollments...
Thernstrom agreed with Orfield on the need to improve the nation’s schools, but instead of focusing on problem-plagued urban schools, Thernstrom advocated giving parents vouchers that would allow them to enroll their children in private, charter or parochial schools...