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EducationPh.D., political science, University of Chicago, 1968 Research InterestsProfessor Orfield is interested in the study of civil rights, education policy, urban policy, and minority opportunity. He was co-founder and director of the Harvard Civil Rights Project and is now co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. Orfield's central interest has been the development and implementation of social policy, with a central focus on the impact of policy on equal opportunity for success in American society. NewsOrfield received the 2007 "Social Justice in Education" Award by the American Educational Research Association for "work that has had a profound impact on demonstrating the critical role of education research in supporting social justice." He is a member of the National Academy of Education.Recent GrantsProfessor Orfield, together with Professor Patricia Gándara, co-director of the Civil Rights Project, received two new research grants since June 2007. The first initiative, funded by the Eleanor Foundation of Chicago, is entitled, "The Future Rests on Working Moms: Unequal Opportunity and Policies to Help Them Realize Their Dreams for Their Children." The second study, funded by the Ford Foundation, is called "Breaking the Chain of Failure: Moving from Weak High Schools to Strong Community Colleges for Students of Color."Recent PublicationsHistoric Reversals, Accelerating Resegregation, and the Need for New Integration Strategies, (with Chungmei Lee), UCLA Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, August 29, 2007 Lessons In Integration: Realizing the Promise of Racial Diversity in America's Public Schools (with E. Frankenberg), University of Virginia Press, 2007 Charting the Future of College Affirmative Action: Legal Victories, Continuing Attacks and New Research (with Patricia Marin, Stella Flores, and Liliana Garces), UCLA Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles, July 2007 Expanding Opportunity in Higher Education: Leveraging Promise (with P. Gandara and C. Horn), SUNY Press, 2006 The End of Keyes -- Resegregation Trends and Achievement in the Denver Public Schools, Catherine L. Horn and Michal Kurlaender. Harvard Civil Rights Project, April 5, 2006 Denver Public School: Resegregation, Latino Style, (with Chungmei Lee), Harvard Civil Rights Project, January 24, 2006 Latino Educational Opportunity (with C. Horn and S. Flores), New Directions for Community Colleges, 133 (2), Spring 2006 School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back? (with J. Boger), University of North Carolina Press, 2005 Higher Education and the Color Line: College Access, Racial Equity and Social Change, (with Patricia Marin, and Catherine L. Horn), Harvard Education Press, 2005 NCLB Meets School Realities: Lessons from the Field (with G. Sunderman and J. Kim) (2005) Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis, Harvard Education Press, 2004 LinksThe Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA |
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