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Published Works
- Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of Brown V. Board of Education (1996) (749)
- Inside the Double Bind: A Synthesis of Empirical Research on Undergraduate and Graduate Women of Color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (2011) (670)
- Why Segregation Matters: Poverty and Educational Inequality (2005) (655)
- Losing Our Future: How Minority Youth Are Being Left behind by the Graduation Rate Crisis. (2004) (531)
- Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of Resegregation (2001) (529)
- Racial inequity in special education (2002) (437)
- Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis (2004) (329)
- Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation - eScholarship (2006) (305)
- Raising Standards or Raising Barriers?: Inequality and High Stakes Testing in Public Education (2001) (288)
- Resegregation in American Schools. (1999) (283)
- Historic Reversals, Accelerating Resegregation, and the Need for New Integration Strategies. (2007) (274)
- Tracking Achievement Gaps and Assessing the Impact of NCLB on the Gaps (2006) (271)
- Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action. (2001) (236)
- Educational Benefits of Diversity in Medical School: A Survey of Students (2003) (219)
- Choice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards (2012) (209)
- "Brown" at 50: King's Dream or "Plessy's" Nightmare?. (2004) (201)
- Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge (2009) (186)
- Educational Delusions?: Why Choice Can Deepen Inequality and How to Make Schools Fair (2013) (164)
- E Pluribus...Separation: Deepening Double Segregation for More Students - eScholarship (2012) (152)
- Must we bus? : segregated schools and national policy (1979) (133)
- The Growth of Segregation in American Schools: Changing Patterns of Separation and Poverty Since 1968 (1993) (130)
- Increasingly Segregated and Unequal Schools as Courts Reverse Policy (2014) (127)
- School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back? (2005) (119)
- Money, Equity, and College Access (1992) (116)
- The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education. (2012) (115)
- Listening to Teachers: Classroom Realities and No Child Left Behind. (2004) (113)
- Percent Plans in College Admissions: A Comparative Analysis of Three States' Experiences. (2003) (112)
- The Resurgence of School Segregation. (2003) (111)
- Tenth Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research (2014) (106)
- Segregating Arizona's English Learners: A Return to the “Mexican Room”? (2012) (96)
- "Brown" at 62: School Segregation by Race, Poverty and State. (2016) (95)
- State Merit Scholarship Programs and Racial Inequality. (2004) (92)
- The Reconstruction of Southern Education: The Schools and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (1970) (88)
- Statement of American Social Scientists of Research on School Desegregation to the U.S. Supreme Court in Parents v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. JeffersonCounty (2008) (82)
- Public School Desegregation in the United States, 1968-1980 (1986) (73)
- A Return to the "Mexican Room": The Segregation of Arizona's English Learners (2010) (72)
- The Civil Rights Project (2010) (69)
- Domesticating a revolution : No child left behind reforms and state administrative response (2006) (68)
- Harming Our Common Future: America's Segregated Schools 65 Years after "Brown". (2019) (66)
- Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools: A Special Report from the Harvard Project on School Desegregation (1997) (60)
- Diversity and Legal Education: Student Experiences in Leading Law Schools (1999) (58)
- Building Pathways to Transfer: Community Colleges That Break the Chain of Failure for Students of Color. (2012) (56)
- Higher Education and the Color Line: College Access, Racial Equity, and Social Change (2005) (55)
- Nclb Meets School Realities: Lessons From The Field (2005) (51)
- Hispanic Education: Challenges, Research, and Policies (1986) (51)
- The Last Have Become First: Rural and Small Town America Lead the Way on Desegregation (2008) (50)
- Congressional power: Congress and social change (1975) (46)
- Inspiring Vision, Disappointing Results: Four Studies on Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act. Introduction. (2004) (44)
- Why Arizona matters: the historical, legal, and political contexts of Arizona’s instructional policies and U.S. linguistic hegemony (2012) (42)
- High Hopes, Long Odds: A Major Report on Hoosier Teens and the American Dream. (1994) (42)
- Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education: Leveraging Promise (2006) (42)
- Lessons in Integration : Realizing the Promise of Racial Diversity in American Schools (2007) (42)
- Hard Work for Good Schools: Facts Not Fads in Title I Reform (1999) (39)
- The Forgotten Choice? Rethinking Magnet Schools in a Changing Landscape (2008) (38)
- Status of School Desegregation: The Next Generation. (1992) (38)
- Housing Segregation Produces Unequal SchoolsCauses and Solutions (2013) (35)
- Race, Class, and College Access: Achieving Diversity in a Shifting Legal Landscape (2015) (35)
- How to Make Desegregation Work: The Adaptation of Schools to Their Newly-Integrated Student Bodies (1975) (34)
- School District Lines Stratify Educational Opportunity by Race and Poverty (2015) (31)
- Exclusion of the majority: Shrinking college access and public policy in metropolitan Los Angeles (1988) (29)
- Demographic Transformation in a Policy Vacuum: The Changing Face of U.S. Metropolitan Society and Challenges for Public Schools (2017) (29)
- Public Opinion and School Desegregation (1995) (28)
- Do States Have the Capacity to Meet the NCLB Mandates? (2007) (25)
- Why High Stakes Accountability Sounds Good But Doesn‘t Work— And Why We Keep on Doing It Anyway (2009) (24)
- Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in Texas (2006) (24)
- Policy and equity: A third of a century of educational reforms in the United States (1999) (23)
- Charting the Future of College Affirmative Action: Legal Victories, Continuing Attacks, and New Research (2007) (23)
- Are We Segregated and Satisfied? Segregation and Inequality in Southern California Schools (2015) (22)
- New Faces, Old Patterns? Segregation in the Multiracial South (2005) (21)
- Federal Policy, Local Power, and Metropolitan Segregation (1974) (21)
- Experiencing Integration in Louisville: How Parents and Students See the Gains and Challenges. (2011) (20)
- Expansion of Federal Power in American Education: Federal-State Relationships Under the "No Child Left Behind Act," Year One. (2004) (20)
- State Higher Education Systems and College Completion. Final Report to the Ford Foundation. (1992) (20)
- Declines in Minority Access: A Tale of Five Cities. (1988) (19)
- Racial Inequity in Special Education Undefined. (2002) (19)
- The Access Crisis in Higher Education (2005) (18)
- The Vicious Cycle: Segregated Housing, Schools and Intergenerational Inequality (2006) (16)
- Choice and Civil Rights (2013) (16)
- Public Policy and College Opportunity (1990) (15)
- City-Suburban Desegregation. Parent and Student Perspectives in Metropolitan Boston. (1997) (15)
- The Chicago Study of Access and Choice in Higher Education: A Report to the Illinois Senate Committee on Higher Education. (1984) (14)
- Toward a Strategy for Urban Integration: Lessons in School and Housing Policy from Twelve Cities. A Report to the Ford Foundation. (1981) (14)
- Perpetuating Separate and Unequal Worlds of Educational Opportunity Through District Lines: School Segregation by Race and Poverty (2016) (14)
- Flawed Assumptions: How No Child Left Behind Fails Principals. (2006) (14)
- Changing NCLB District Accountability Standards: Implications for Racial Equity (2006) (14)
- Lessons of the Los Angeles Desegregation Case (1984) (14)
- Integrated Schools: Finding a New Path. (2010) (14)
- School Desegregation in the 1980s. (1988) (13)
- The Principals Denied by NCLB Are Central to Visionary School Reform. (2006) (13)
- A Status Quo of Segregation: Racial and Economic Imbalance in New Jersey Schools, 1989-2010. (2013) (13)
- The New Diversity. (2000) (13)
- Research, Politics, and the Antibusing Debate. (1978) (13)
- Our Segregated Capital: An Increasingly Diverse City with Racially Polarized Schools (2017) (12)
- Expanding Student Opportunities: Prime 6 Program Review, Clark County School District, Las Vegas, Nevada (2009) (12)
- Integrat Ion Defen DeD: Berkeley Unified's Strategy to Maintain School Diversity (2009) (12)
- New Jersey’s Segregated Schools Trends and Paths Forward (2017) (12)
- Diversity and Educational Gains: a plan for a changing county and its schools (2011) (11)
- Racial Change & Desegregation in Large School Districts: Trends through the 1986-1987 School Year. (1988) (11)
- Summary of "City-Suburban Desegregation: Parent and Student Perspectives in Metropolitan Boston," a Report by the Harvard Civil Rights Project. (1998) (11)
- Status of School Desegregation 1968-1986. A Report of the Council of Urban Boards of Education and the National School Desegregation Research Project, University of Chicago. (1989) (11)
- Twenty-First Century Color Lines: Multiracial Change in Contemporary America (2008) (11)
- White Growth, Persistent Segregation: Could Gentrification Become Integration? (2017) (10)
- Southern Schools: More Than a Half-Century After the Civil Rights Revolution (2017) (10)
- Connecticut School Integration: Moving Forward as the Northeast Retreats. (2015) (10)
- Asking the Right Question (1994) (9)
- Divided We Fail: Segregated and Unequal Schools in the Southland (2011) (8)
- Fragmented Economy, Stratified Society, and the Shattered Dream (2011) (8)
- Cutback Policies, Declining Opportunities, and the Role of Social Service Providers: The "Social Service Review" Lecture (1991) (7)
- Job Training under the New Federalism. JTPA in the Industrial Heartland. Report to the Subcommittee on Employment, Committee on Education and Labor, U.S. House of Representatives. (1986) (7)
- Huntington and Hispanics (2004) (7)
- Latino educational opportunity (2006) (7)
- In Defense of Diversity: New Research and Evidence from the University of Michigan (1999) (7)
- Will Separate Be More Equal (1976) (6)
- Federal Policy and College Opportunity (1993) (6)
- Realizing the Promise of the Civil Rights Revolution: Challenges and Consequences for Graduate Education (2014) (6)
- Experiencing Integration in Louisville (2013) (6)
- School Segregation and Residential Segregation (1980) (6)
- White Flight Research (1976) (6)
- Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education (2006) (6)
- Housing Segregation: Causes, Effects, Possible Cures. (2001) (6)
- Does Desegregation Help Close the Gap? (Testimony of Gary Orfield, March 22, 1996). (1997) (6)
- Embracing the Effects of Demographic Change. (2019) (5)
- Squeezed from All Sides: The CSU Crisis and California's Future (2011) (5)
- Deja Vu--The Access/Success Pendulum. (2010) (5)
- Federal Agencies and Urban Segregation: Steps toward Coordinated Action. (1979) (5)
- Congress, the President, and Anti-Busing Legislation, 1966-1974. (1975) (5)
- Miles to Go: A Report on School Segregation in Virginia, 1989-2010. (2013) (5)
- Epilogue: Some civil rights issues moving forward (2006) (5)
- THE HIGH-STAKES TESTING MANIA HURTS POOR AND MINORITY STUDENTS THE MOST. Testing, Testing (2005) (5)
- School Integration and Its Academic Critics. (1973) (5)
- The Unraveling of No Child Left Behind (2006) (5)
- Residential Segregation: What Are the Causes? (Testimony of Gary Orfield, March 22, 1996). (1997) (4)
- Metropolitan high schools: income, race and inequality (1989) (4)
- Divided We Fail: Segregation and Inequality in the Southland's Schools (2011) (4)
- Is Coleman Right (1976) (4)
- If wishes were houses then busing could stop: Demographic trends and desegregation policy (1978) (4)
- School Desegregation 50 Years after Brown: Misconceptions, Lessons Learned, and Hopes for the Future (2005) (4)
- Religion, race, and justice in a changing America (1999) (3)
- Discrimination in Elite Public Schools: Investigating Buffalo. (2018) (3)
- Alternative Paths to Diversity: Exploring and Implementing Effective College Admissions Policies (2017) (3)
- Dividing lines: East versus west in Minneapolis suburbs (2012) (3)
- Accountability and Opportunity in Higher Education: The Civil Rights Dimension. (2018) (3)
- Are American Schools Resegregating in the Reagan Era? A Statistical Analysis of Segregation Levels from 1980-1984. Working Paper No. 14. (1986) (3)
- Affirmative Action Hanging in the Balance (2013) (3)
- Rededication Not Celebration: Brown at Fifty. (2003) (3)
- Housing and the Justification of School Segregation (1995) (3)
- Why Segregation Matters: Poverty and Educational Inequality - eScholarship (2005) (2)
- Better Choices for Buffalo's Students: Expanding & Reforming the Criteria Schools System (2015) (2)
- States with highly fragmented school districts have greaterlevels of school segregation (2015) (2)
- Data Proposals Threaten Education and Civil Rights Accountability (2006) (2)
- The Resegregation of Our Nation's Schools: A Troubling Trend (1999) (2)
- Commentary: Racial Division, Research, and Building Human Capital. (2017) (2)
- Tough Choices Facing Florida's Governments: Patterns of Resegregation in Florida's Schools (2017) (2)
- Racial Segregation: Two Policy Views (1979) (2)
- New Perspectives on the U. S. Congress: A Review Article@@@The New Politics Congress@@@Congressional Power: Congress and Social Change@@@Congress in Change: Evolution and Reform@@@Rulemakers of the House@@@Leadership in Congress: Stability, Succession, and Change@@@Congress Reconsidered@@@Congressio (1977) (2)
- The Politics of Research Design: A Reply to Mornell (1979) (2)
- Symposium on School Desegregation and White Flight. (1975) (2)
- When choice fosters inequality (2016) (2)
- 2. Choice Theories and the Schools (2019) (1)
- Twenty-First Century Color Lines (2009) (1)
- Excerpts from the 2006 Report: Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation. (2007) (1)
- School Desegregation: The First Good Policy Review@@@Must We Bus? Segregated Schools and National Policy. (1979) (1)
- School Desegregation Patterns in the States, Large Cities and Metropolitan Areas, 1968-1980. Working Paper. (1983) (1)
- School Segregation in the 1980's: Trends in the United States and Metropolitan Areas. A Report by the National School Desegregation Project. (1987) (1)
- Residential Segregation and the 1990 Census. Metropolitan Chicago Census Analysis Project. Report No. 1. (1991) (1)
- Will Voluntary Desegregation Work in Los Angeles (1982) (1)
- 11. Experiencing Integration in Louisville: Attitudes on Choice and Diversity in a Changing Legal Environment (2019) (1)
- Private Schools in American Education: A Small Sector Still Lagging in Diversity. Working Paper. (2018) (1)
- Why Data Collection Matters (2002) (1)
- A Life in Civil Rights (2010) (1)
- Two Studies of a Faculty in Crisis (2011) (1)
- School Segregation and Housing Policy: The Role of Local and Federal Governments in Neighborhood Segregation (1979) (1)
- Conclusion: A Theory of Choice with Equity (2019) (1)
- Asian Students and Multiethnic Desegregation. (1994) (1)
- Merit versus Need: Where's the Balance?. (2003) (1)
- How Negotiated Changes Transform the Law (2006) (1)
- Chapter 2 Conservative Activists and the Rush Toward Resegregation (2017) (1)
- Housing and School Segregation and Intergenerational Inequality in the U.S. (2009) (1)
- New Jersey's Segregated Schools: Trends and Paths Forward - eScholarship (2017) (1)
- Race and the Liberal Agenda: (2020) (0)
- Introduction [to Diversity Challenged]. (2001) (0)
- Latino educational opportunity [Series Issue] (2006) (0)
- Understanding How Resegregation Affects Schools: The Views of Wichita Teachers, Parents, and Students (2011) (0)
- Chapter 6 What Shall Be the Future for the Children of Migration? (2021) (0)
- Volume Information (1990) (0)
- Suburban Exclusion and the Courts (2004) (0)
- The Lasanti Project Description (2011) (0)
- Building on Success: Educational Diversity and Equity in Kentucky Higher Education. Choices before the Commonwealth. Final Report. (2008) (0)
- Policy Brief: Unequal Public Schools Makes Affirmative Action Essential for Equal Opportunity (2020) (0)
- Segregation, Inequality, Discrimination and Catholic Social Thought: Moving from Doctrine to Action (2006) (0)
- The vicious cycle (2006) (0)
- Commentary on "When Policy Opportunity is not Enough: College Access and Enrollment Patterns among Texas Percent Plan Eligible Students" (2012) (0)
- Commentary (2017) (0)
- What Shall Be the Future for the Children of Migration? (0)
- Exit and Redevelopment (2009) (0)
- Editorial Policy: Newly Adopted, August 1983 (1983) (0)
- State Housing Policy and Urban School Segregation. ECS Working Paper LEC-83-13. (1983) (0)
- Sunderman, Gail L., James S. Kim, and Gary Orfield, NCLB Meets School Realities: Lessons from the Field. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2005. (2005) (0)
- The Walls around Opportunity (2022) (0)
- The Closing Door@@@The Closing Door: Conservative Policy and Black Opportunity. (1992) (0)
- NEWLY-INTEGRATED STUDENT BODIES (2015) (0)
- The Menominee Struggle: A Tribe Fights to Restore Its Federal Status. (1973) (0)
- Financing College in Hard Times: Work and Student Aid (2011) (0)
- The Politics of Resegregation. (1969) (0)
- Race, Class, and Education: The Politics of Second-Generation Discrimination.Kenneth J. Meier , Joseph Stewart, Jr. , Robert E. England (1991) (0)
- The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America.Stephen Steinberg (1983) (0)
- Has Busing Worked (1979) (0)
- School District Lines Stratify Educational Opportunity by Race and Poverty (2014) (0)
- A Dream Undone? Higher Education Access in a Shifting Legal Landscape. (2016) (0)
- Foreword (2005) (0)
- Commentary: Knowledge, Ideology, and School Desegregation: Views Through Different Prisms. (1986) (0)
- When Choice Fosters Inequality, Can Research Help? A Research Team Identifies Discriminatory Trends in a Choice System - and Proposes How to Make That System Fair (2016) (0)
- Losing Ground: School Segregation in Massachusetts - eScholarship (2013) (0)
- Books: Opportunities for Minorities (1989) (0)
- Black Civil Rights During the Johnson Administration. By Harvey James C.. (Jackson: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973. Pp. xiv, 245. $4.95.) (1975) (0)
- Desegregation from Brown to Alexander: An Exploration of Supreme Court Strategies. By Wasby Stephen L., D'Amato Anthony A. and Metrailer Rosemary. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1977. Pp. xx + 425. $19.85.) (1979) (0)
- The Unraveling of No Child Left Behind - eScholarship (2006) (0)
- Brown v. Board After a Half Century: The Gains of Integration, the Consequences of Resegregation (2003) (0)
- Why Arizona matters: the historical, legal, and political contexts of Arizona’s instructional policies and U.S. linguistic hegemony (2012) (0)
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