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Download full textAncheta, Angelo; Ledesma, Maria; Trent, William; Kurlaender, Michal; Yun, John; Lee, Chungmei; Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve; Driscoll, Anne; Orfield, Gary – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2008
This report is an effort to assess what has been accomplished in successfully diversifying and desegregating historically segregated and unequal higher educational institutions across Kentucky, and how this was done. The report discusses the changing legal setting for these initiatives, analyzes the educational achievements and challenges, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Desegregation, Equal Education, Student Diversity
Orfield, Gary; Lee, Chungmei – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (The), 2004
This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Court's 1991 "Dowell" decision, which authorized a return to neighborhood schools, even if that would create segregation, through the 2001-2002 school year. It goes beyond previous reports by Harvard's Civil Rights Project to study the impact of resegregation in…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Resegregation, Race, Poverty
Peer reviewedOrfield, Gary – Journal of Law and Education, 1975
Develops the role of politics and the need for political leadership in civil rights legislation and enforcement policies. (DW)
Descriptors: Busing, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation
Orfield, Gary; Lee, Chungmei – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, 2006
This report is about the changing patterns of segregation in American public schools through the 2003-2004 school year. It begins by examining the transformation of racial composition in the nation's schools, the dynamic patterns of segregation and desegregation of all racial groups in regions, states, and districts by using data from 1968 until…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Public Schools, School Demography, African American Students
Peer reviewedOrfield, Gary – Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1979
In arguing that the present administration has no coordinated or coherent policy for urban integration, this paper reviews urban trends, analyzes the barriers to unified action, and discusses a variety of steps that federal agencies can take to improve the administration's civil rights record. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation
Peer reviewedOrfield, Gary – Teachers College Record, 1995
Summarizes public opinion regarding school desegregation, busing, and racial integration. Public opinion surveys reveal a reality of public opinion on desegregation that is far more complex and more positive than might be assumed. The public appears to believe that school integration is valuable, but there is strong resistance, particularly among…
Descriptors: Black Students, Busing, Civil Rights Legislation, Educational Discrimination
Orfield, Gary; Monfort, Franklin – 1988
Dramatic changes in the size and racial composition of the nation's largest urban school districts are indicators of an increasingly multiracial and highly segregated society. Data were analyzed from the 1986-87 and 1984-85 Department of Education computer tapes containing the enrollments by race of 36,000 schools from 3,400 districts nationwide.…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Black Students, Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Plans
