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The case for race-conscious education policy 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 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 from early childhood. The Walls around Opport...

In many respects, religion was a bedrock of the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Theology infused the spirit and rhetoric of the movement, churches served as the gathering place for its followers, and men of the cloth--foremost among them the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.--led the perilous journey that changed the nation. Today, the quest for improving the lives of racial minorities and pursuing justice is less a "movement"...

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This book argues that the current conversation about affirmative action and college admissions omits a key dimension: the conditions of racial inequality that students and their families experience from early childhood through high school, and which continue throughout postsecondary education. The moment of matriculation is part of a much longer process that begins in homes, schools, and communities, which prepares some students well and leave...

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Examines the Buffalo Public Schools and their admissions process following a civil rights complaint filed by parents and community leaders. The authors offer research-based recommendations for reducing barriers to enrollment and for creating competitive admissions choice systems that will allow all students access to important educational opportunities.

This book examines the Buffalo Public Schools and their admissions process following a civil rights complaint filed by parents and community leaders. The authors offer research-based recommendations for reducing barriers to enrollment and for creating competitive admissions choice systems that will allow all students access to important educational opportunities.

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Addresses the unforeseen impact of accountability standards on students of colour and the institutions that disproportionately serve them. The book describes how federal policies can worsen existing racial inequalities in higher education and offers alternative solutions aimed to protect and advance civil rights for low-income and minority students and their colleges.

After a generation of efforts to reverse the historic exclusion of minorities from their campuses, US colleges and universities are facing a frontal attack on the programs, policies, and commitments born of these efforts. This book examines their struggle to foresee the consequences of abandoning affirmative action, and to devise viable alternatives for promoting and preserving campus diversity.

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Reviews the most recent and accurate data on graduation and dropout rates in American eduction, explores the reasons that young people drop out of school, and presents the most promising models for helping high school students graduate with their peers. This book is a call to action for educators, advocates, and policymakers alike.

Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems, affirmative action's survival may turn on just one question - whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities. Diversity Challenged is designed to address that question.

“Orfield and Frankenberg have put together an extraordinary book that ought to be required reading for anyone who cares about our children and the public schools that serve them. If it were only for the powerful analysis of the dangerous charter school phenomenon, Educational Delusions? would be important and eye-opening. But there is also Frankenberg’s dazzling assessment of the carefully designed integration plan carried out in Berkeley, the...

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“Orfield and Frankenberg have put together an extraordinary book that ought to be required reading for anyone who cares about our children and the public schools that serve them. If it were only for the powerful analysis of the dangerous charter school phenomenon, Educational Delusions? would be important and eye-opening. But there is also Frankenberg’s dazzling assessment of the carefully designed integration plan carried out in Berkeley, the...