Civil Rights
Dec. 22, 2006
Blinding Schools to Race Devalues Diversity
FORUM COLUMN - By Erwin Chemerinsky - American public schools are increasingly racially segregated. A study by Harvard Professor Gary Orfield found that "[f]rom 1988 to 1998, most of the progress of the previous two decades in increasing integration in the [South] was lost."
Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law UC Berkeley School of Law
Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).
By Erwin Chemerinsky
American public schools are increasingly racially segregated. A study by Harvard Professor Gary Orfield found that "[f]rom 1988 to 1998, most of the progress of the previous two decades in increasing integration in the [South] was lost." The South is still more integrated than it was before the civil rights revolution, but it is moving backward at an accelerating...
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