Professor Orfield received his B.A. in political science from the University of Minnesota and his M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Chicago. He is primarily interested in the study of civil rights, ...

Los Angeles is among the target cities for a new federal effort to root out racial divides in public schools. UCLA education professor Gary Orfield says that should include a close look at charter ...

The incoming governor plans to expand magnet schools and choice programs while long-standing desegregation lawsuit moves ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A civil rights expert hired by the Buffalo School District says the city’s best schools need to change requirements for admission. Dr. Gary Orfield’s report was sparked by ...

From NPR News, this is NEW AND NOTES. I'm Ed Gordon, A recent Associated Press Ipsos Poll found that 78 percent of white Americans and 66 percent of black Americans agree we're closer than ever to Dr.

Back in 2011, Gary Orfield, a nationally renowned expert on school desegregation and civil rights, warned that trying to fix schools largely by focusing on failing test scores could, well, lead to ...

Washington, D.C. school officials pushed back against a report published by the University of California Los Angeles Civil Rights Project claiming the city’s public and charter schools are among the ...

As President-elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris prepare for a new national administration, the Civil Rights Project at UCLA has issued new research underscoring the grievous ...

Leading national civil rights groups and advocates are increasingly divided over whether the No Child Left Behind Act will improve the academic achievement of poor and minority students, a rift that ...

From the time Patrick Ben III decided he would go to college, there seemed to be an obstacle at every turn. The high school he attended on Chicago’s South Side offered few of the advantages wealthier ...