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Shame of the Nation: Unequal Schooling
October 24, 2005
Jonathan Kozol writer, activist
Gary Orfield director, Project on School Desegregation

Jonathan Kozol documents the reappearance of separate and unequal schooling in our nation's educational system. Gary Orfield of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard responds and moderates the discussion.

This event is cosponsored by the Cambridge Forum and the Graduate School of education at Harvard University.

Culture & Identity | Education
Human Rights | Segregation | Social Class | Classroom & Community | Education Reform | Literacy & Testing | Race
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