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  • The School Voucher Illusion

    Exposing the Pretense of Equity

    Edited by Kevin Welner, Gary Orfield, Luis A. Huerta ...
    This authoritative book examines the long-standing campaign that resulted in today’s school voucher policies. Advocates of private school vouchers promulgated a vision of service to low-income families, students of color, and other marginalized student populations. Vouchers were sold as a way to advance civil rights. But as voucher policies grew in size and became an element of Republican ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education

    Edited by Nicholas Hillman, Gary Orfield ...
    Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education offers a renewed vision for higher education policy making, presenting an incisive analysis of the connections between educational politics and educational inequality. With a view toward the future, the editors assert that the thoughtful application of evidence-based solutions to complex policy problems can help establish a more just and equitable system ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Integration and the Language of Race in the "Post-Racial" Era

    by Maria Krysan, Howard Winant, John Powell, Andrew Grant Thomas, Gary Orfield, Erica Frankenberg, Lucie Kalousova, Robert A. Sedler, Reynolds Farley ...
    The book is divided into two major sections: (1) “Reclaiming Integration”; (2) “Reclaiming the Language of Race.” Both sections are located in the context of the “post-racial” era and analyzed by nationally renowned scholars in various dimensions. The purpose of this organization is to link structural efforts to encourage voluntary integration with discursive efforts to broaden our social ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Educational Delusions?

    Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair

    by Gary Orfield, Erica Frankenberg ...
    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 choice could be either a serious barrier or a significant tool for reaching these goals. The second large and continuing movement for choice was part of the very different anti-government, individualistic, market-based movement of a more ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • When the Fences Come Down

    Twenty-First-Century Lessons from Metropolitan School Desegregation

    by Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Gary Orfield ...
    How we provide equal educational opportunity to an increasingly diverse, highly urbanized student population is one of the central concerns facing our nation. As Genevieve Siegel-Hawley argues in this thought-provoking book, within our metropolitan areas we are currently allowing a labyrinthine system of school-district boundaries to divide students — and opportunities — along racial and economic ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Resegregation of Suburban Schools

    A Hidden Crisis in American Education

    Edited by Erica Frankenberg, Gary Orfield ...
    "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 this groundbreaking and passionately argued book. They show that the locus of racial and ethnic transformation is now clearly suburban and illustrate patterns of demographic change in the suburbs with a series of rich case studies.The book ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Walls around Opportunity

    The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education

    by Gary Orfield ...
    Series series Our Compelling Interests
    The case for race-conscious education policyIn 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 education system gives the best opportunities to the most privileged. Students of color hope for college but often face a dead end.For many young people, racial inequality puts them at a disadvantage ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • School Resegregation

    Must the South Turn Back?

    Edited by John Charles Boger, Gary Orfield ...
    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    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 and socioeconomic resegregation of southern schools. In the region that has achieved more widespread public school integration than any other since 1970, resegregation, combined with resource inequities and the current “accountability ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Discrimination in Elite Public Schools

    Investigating Buffalo

    Edited by Gary Orfield, Jennifer B. Ayscue ...
    School choice is an increasingly important part of today’s educational landscape and this timely volume presents fresh research about the competitive admissions policies of choice systems. Based on their investigation of a unique civil rights challenge to school choice admissions policies in politically and racially divided Buffalo, New York, and the struggle to open its best schools to students ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Walls around Opportunity

    The Failure of Colorblind Policy for Higher Education

    by Gary Orfield ...
    Series series Our Compelling Interests
    The case for race-conscious education policyIn 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 education system gives the best opportunities to the most privileged. Students of color hope for college but often face a dead end.For many young people, racial inequality puts them at a disadvantage ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Debunking the Middle-Class Myth

    Why Diverse Schools Are Good for All Kids

    by Eileen Gale Kugler ...
    Many parents search for a "good" school to enroll their children. They look at the school's standardized test scores and check out demographic statistics, but fail to investigate the strengths of these schools that have a vibrant mix of races and cultures. Eileen Gale Kugler offers a unique perspective on what every educator, parent, and community leader should know about reaping the rich harvest ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Twenty-First Century Color Lines

    Multiracial Change in Contemporary America

    Edited by Andrew Grant-Thomas, Gary Orfield ...
    The result of work initiated by the Harvard Civil Rights Project, this collection provides an excellent overview of the contemporary racial and ethnic terrain in the United States. The well-respected contributors to Twenty-First Century Color Lines combine theoretical and empirical perspectives, answering fundamental questions about the present and future of multiracialism in the United States: ... Read more

    $22.29 USD