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...study found Kentucky to be the most integrated state, and Orfield portrayed Louisville as a model because desegregatation policies are supported by the community...
...larger implications of these findings, Orfield held, are the strong correlations he found between segregation and lower test scores...
Arguing that diversity enhances education, Orfield recommended a number of social policy solutions meant to reverse the resegregation trends...
Denouncing President Bush’s recent decision to bypass Congress and seat a Federal judge from Mississippi on the Fifth Circuit’s Court of Appeals, Orfield called for judicial appointees who “understand race.” He also criticized both Democrats and Republicans for their inability to address segregation issues...
...Orfield also derided the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” initiative, saying that in demanding that all schools progress equally, the program will punish segregated schools that lag behind...