November 29, 2011

This book is designed “to reinvigorate the movement for equality in our multiracial society,” says Co-editor Erica Frankenberg. “It furthers the case for how education policies can be adopted in tandem with other social policies to create a more integrated and equitable society.”

Integrating Schools in a Changing Society enhances the discussion already underway about immediate and long-term policy options legally available to the nation’s school districts, many of which remain committed to the ideal of integration as a tool for improving educational opportunity and achievement.

Published by the University of North Carolina Press and edited by Erica Frankenberg and Elizabeth DeBray, the book originated from a conference that the Civil Rights Project co-sponsored in 2009 and includes contributions from CRP Co-directors Patricia Gándara and Gary Orfield as well as from many other leading scholars.

Project Co-director Orfield commented, “Too many districts have passively accepted the spread of segregation in their schools.  This book helps point the way out of deepening inequality.”

Integrating Schools in a Changing Society argues that the basic lesson of the landmark ruling Brown v. Board of Education was and is correct, but is not being applied due to recent court decisions. The book includes both evidence about the harms of resegregation and research-based ideas about how to address one of the most important education policy issues of our time.

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