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Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education by Hillman, Nicholas, Ed, Orfield, Gary, Ed

“…"Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education" offers a renewed vision for higher education policy making, presenting an incisive analysis of the connections…”
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The School Voucher Illusion: Exposing the Pretense of Equity by Welner, Kevin, Ed, Orfield, Gary, Ed, Huerta, Luis A., Ed

“…This authoritative book examines the long-standing campaign that resulted in today's school voucher policies. Advocates of private school vouchers promulgated…”
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School resegregation: Must the South turn back? by Boger, John Charles, Orfield, Gary

“…Confronting a reality that many policy makers would prefer to ignore, contributors to this volume offer the latest information on the trend toward the racial…”
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Educational delusions?: Why choice can deepen inequality and how to make schools fair by Orfield, Gary, Frankenberg, Erica

“…The first major battle over school choice came out of struggles over equalizing and integrating schools in the civil rights era, when it became apparent that…”
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Discrimination in Elite Public Schools: Investigating Buffalo by Orfield, Gary, Ed, Ayscue, Jennifer B., Ed

“…School choice is an increasingly important part of today's educational landscape and this timely volume presents fresh research about the competitive…”
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Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education: The Civil Rights Dimension by Orfield, Gary, Ed, Hillman, Nicholas, Ed

“…In "Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education," leading scholars address the unforeseen impact of accountability standards on students of color and…”
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The Walls around Opportunity: The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education. Our Compelling Interests by Orfield, Gary

“…In our unequal society, families of color fully share the dream of college but their children often attend schools that do not prepare them, and the higher…”
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The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education by Frankenberg, Erica, Ed, Orfield, Gary, Ed

“…"The United States today is a suburban nation that thinks of race as an urban issue, and often assumes that it has been largely solved," write the editors of…”
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Tenth Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research A New Civil Rights Agenda for American Education by Orfield, Gary

“…This article reviews the impacts of the civil rights policies framed in the 1960s and the anti–civil rights political and legal movements that reversed them…”
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Increasingly Segregated and Unequal Schools as Courts Reverse Policy by Orfield, Gary, Frankenberg, Erica

“…Purpose: School administrators and policy makers live in a complex, changing policy universe in which there are many competing demands and political pressures…”
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Commentary: Racial Division, Research, and Building Human Capital by Orfield, Gary

“…The article ''Transforming Educational Experiences in Low-Income Communities'' analyzes the efforts of a highly impoverished small elementary school to provide…”
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Inside the Double Bind: A Synthesis of Empirical Research on Undergraduate and Graduate Women of Color in Science, Technology, Engineering,and Mathematics by Ong, Maria, Wright, Carol, Espinosa, Lorelle L, Orfield, Gary

“…In this article, Maria Ong, Carol Wright, Lorelle Espinosa, and Gary Orfield review nearly forty years of scholarship on the postsecondary educational…”
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Demographic Transformation in a Policy Vacuum: The Changing Face of U.S. Metropolitan Society and Challenges for Public Schools by Mordechay, Kfir, Orfield, Gary

“…Educators and policy makers must confront the race and class disparities in learning opportunities across American society. Nowhere are these disparities more…”
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Realizing the Promise of the Civil Rights Revolution: Challenges and Consequences for Graduate Education by Orfield, Gary

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Dismantling Desegregation. The Quiet Reversal of Brown v. Board of Education by Orfield, Gary, Eaton, Susan E

“…The United States is quick to celebrate the Brown v. Board of Education decision, but there is an insidious trend toward resegregation in the public schools…”
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Affirmative Action Hanging in the Balance: Giving Voice to the Research Community in the Supreme Court by Orfield, Gary

“…Good research does not mean good policy, but policy or legal conclusions that rely on false assumptions are certain to be bad. When the rights of U.S. students…”
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Higher Education and the Color Line: College Access, Racial Equity, and Social Change by Orfield, Gary, Ed, Marin, Patricia, Ed, Horn, Catherine L., Ed

“…"Higher Education and the Color Line" examines the role of higher education in opening up equal opportunity for mobility in American society--or in reinforcing…”
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Chilling Admissions: The Affirmative Action Crisis and the Search for Alternatives by Orfield, Gary, Ed, Miller, Edward, Ed

“…This book, produced by the Harvard Civil Rights Project, focuses on the consequences for student body diversity of eliminating race and ethnicity as factors in…”
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Choice and Civil Rights: Forgetting History, Facing Consequences by Gary Orfield

“…The idea of school choice has a tangled history. It is an idea that has taken many shapes, under the banner of the same hopeful word, one that seems to have a…”
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Segregating Arizona's English Learners: A Return to the "Mexican Room"? by Gandara, Patricia, Orfield, Gary

“…Background:This study grew out of a recent Supreme Court case known as "Horne v Flores." The case began in 1992 in Nogales, Arizona when a 4th grade English…”
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