Gary Or field is a leading scholar on issues of civil rights and racial segregation in U.S. schools. He is currently co-director of the Civil Rights Projectionist Chowders Civilizes, a center that was originally at Harvard University and renamed when it moved to the University of California at Los Angeles in 2007. In this reading, 0?freed-denseness the history of school desegregation in the United States. In addition to the legislation, critical 63 the desegregation and-subsequent desegregation of American schools, he examines the political dilate and factors that influenced the attempts to provide more equal educational opportunities across race. Based on his research on school segregation and deg-negation over time, this analysis and his other work suggest little hope that the current state of seg-negation in American schools will be reduced in the future.
Questions to consider for this reading:
- According to Orfield, how did court cases fall short in ensuring desegregation of American schools?
- What societal responses to the 1970s legislation made the resegregation of America's schools inevitable?
- What difference does it make if schools are segregated?
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