What does Prof. Gary Orfield mean on Page 19 and 20 when he say intergation didnt fail ?

Answer 1

Many scholars disagree with professor Orfield.

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You will probably have to read the entire transcript to get the answer. I have a appointment and I don't have the time.
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http://www.umich.edu/~daap/trial-orfield.txt
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN
SOUTHERN DIVISION
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http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0301/19/sm.19.html
GARY ORFIELD, THE CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY: back in the 1960s when Martin Luther King started his movement, 99 percent of black students in the south were in completely segregated schools. Now only about an eighth are in absolutely segregated schools. But we're going backwards and it's the -- the pace of it is accelerating. So now we have about one-sixth of the black students in the country in schools that we call apartheid schools and up to a fourth in the Northeast
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http://www.nationalreview.com/15sept97/hu091597.html
Gary Orfield, keeps telling us that minority education could be fixed if only we desegregated more. Educators and the media routinely slam city schools for poor minority performance while holding up affluent suburban districts as models because of their better test scores. Yet, if Orfield is right that segregated districts don't produce equal outcomes, no one has answered the more important question, which is whether ``integrated'' districts produce equal outcomes.

After some cursory research -- a few phone calls to local school districts, a ride on the Internet -- I tracked down reports that do chart test scores and grades against race, not only in the worst but also in the best districts. The reason that people like Gary Orfield don't have the numbers is that it's safer to uphold the myth that minorities will perform as well as their white peers in good suburban schools than to expose the reality that the racial gap exists even in the best suburbs.