Orfield, Gary
Educational Researcher, v43 n6 p273-292 Aug-Sep 2014
Abstract:
This
article reviews the impacts of the civil rights policies framed in the
1960s and the anti-civil rights political and legal movements that
reversed them. It documents rising segregation by race and poverty. The
policy reversals and transformation of U.S. demography require a new
civil rights strategy. Vast immigrations, the sinking White birthrate
and massive suburban change means it must be multiracial and
metropolitan and reflect the huge increase in students from
language-minority homes. School policy must be linked with social and
economic policy. Housing integration is critical since residence is
often destiny for children of color. Researchers are key participants in
developing new policies and explaining possibilities for positive
change within a stalemated political and legal system. The article
outlines essential components of a new civil rights policy.
article reviews the impacts of the civil rights policies framed in the
1960s and the anti-civil rights political and legal movements that
reversed them. It documents rising segregation by race and poverty. The
policy reversals and transformation of U.S. demography require a new
civil rights strategy. Vast immigrations, the sinking White birthrate
and massive suburban change means it must be multiracial and
metropolitan and reflect the huge increase in students from
language-minority homes. School policy must be linked with social and
economic policy. Housing integration is critical since residence is
often destiny for children of color. Researchers are key participants in
developing new policies and explaining possibilities for positive
change within a stalemated political and legal system. The article
outlines essential components of a new civil rights policy.
