Integrating Schools in a Changing Society: New Policies and Legal Options for a Multiracial Generation

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As a result of tremendous social, legal, and political movements after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the South led the nation in school desegregation from the late 1960s through the beginning of the twenty-first century. However, following a series of court cases in the past two decades–including a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court decision that raised potentially strong barriers for districts wishing to pursue integration–public schools in the South and across the nation are now resegregating faster than ever.

In this comprehensive volume, a roster of leading scholars in educational policy and related fields offer eighteen essays seeking to illuminate new ways for American public education to counter persistent racial and socioeconomic inequality in our society. Drawing on extensive research, the contributors reinforce the key benefits of racially integrated schools, examine remaining options to pursue multiracial integration, and discuss case examples that suggest how to build support for those efforts. Framed by the editors’ introduction and a conclusion by Gary Orfield, these essays engage the heated debates over school reform and advance new arguments about the dangers of resegregation while offering practical, research-grounded solutions to one of the most pressing issues in American education.

The contributors are:

Courtney Bell, Educational Testing Service

Robert Bifulco, Syracuse University

John Charles Boger, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Casey D. Cobb, University of Connecticut

Elizabeth DeBray, University of Georgia

Sarah L. Diem, University of Missouri

Jacquelyn Duran, Columbia University

Erica Frankenberg, Pennsylvania State University

Patricia Gándara, University of California, Los Angeles

Ellen Goldring, Vanderbilt University

Willis D. Hawley, Univer¬sity of Maryland

Jennifer Jellison Holme, University of Texas at Austin

Eric A. Houck, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Emory University

Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation

Chinh Q. Le, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights

Katherine Cumings Mansfield, University of Texas at Austin

Gary Orfield, University of California, Los Angeles

Myron Orfield, University of Minnesota

Douglas D. Ready, Columbia University

Sean F. Reardon, Stanford University

Lori Rhodes, Stanford University

Janelle Scott, University of California, Berkeley

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, University of California, Los Angeles

Megan R. Silander, Columbia University

Claire Smrekar, Vanderbilt University

Amy Stuart Wells, Columbia University

Sheneka Williams, University of Georgia

Terrenda White, Columbia University

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