Commentary: Knowledge, Ideology, and School Desegregation: Views Through Different Prisms.

Orfield, Gary

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Publication Date: 1986

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Commentary: Knowledge, Ideology, and School Desegregation: Views Through Different Prisms.

Orfield, Gary

Metropolitan Education, n1 p92-99 Spr 1986

Introduction to special issue on school desegregation. Asserts that the desegregation debate is often more about values than facts. Emphasizes that the basic problem of school segregation is intimately related to the problems of metropolitan areas. Attributes breakthroughs in school integration to national policy decisions in the 1960s and 1970s. (KH)

Descriptors: Desegregation Plans, Educational Policy, Federal Government, Metropolitan Areas, Political Attitudes, Racial Relations, School Desegregation, Social Values, Urban Problems, Urban Schools

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Language: English

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Note: Theme issue with title "Metropolitan School Desegregation."