Description: Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education offers a renewed vision for higher education policy making, presenting an incisive analysis of the connections between educational politics and educational inequality.
Brief description: Gary Orfield is a professor of education, law, political science and urban planning, and codirector of the Civil Rights Project at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Review Quotes: "A thoughtful volume that describes how decades of federal policy and politics have calcified racial inequity in our higher education system--and the work that lies ahead to make it fair and accessible to all."
--Sameer Gadkaree, president and CEO, The Institute for College Access and Success