14 Quotes by Gary Orfield

There's nothing I know of in the research world that (says) size itself matters. There's lots of small, awful districts in this country.

The Supreme Court that used to be pushing us forward is undermining efforts to desegregate.

Segregation is growing in degree and complexity as the nation becomes increasingly multiracial.

Suburban America has no idea about this crisis. But we are all going to pay for it in the end.

The law sets out what seem to be very clear goals and consequences. However, as researchers predicted before the law was enacted, huge numbers of schools would be branded as failures, including many that are seen as successes and often have rising achievement levels. In response, the administration is permitting a wide variety of changes that lower the failure rate.