Faculty News

March 19, 2012 —Professor Myron Orfield was quoted in MinnPost.com article entitled "House GOP Floats Plan to Restructure Regional Planning." Orfield commented on the proposed changes to the regional government system. Orfield and…

February 22, 2012 —Professor Myron Orfield was quoted in a Huffington Post article, entitled "Charter School Segregation Target Of New Report." Orfield says that charter schools increase racial segregation, even in public schools.

February 17, 2012 —Professor Myron Orfield was a guest on Minnesota Public Radio to discuss integration efforts in Minnesota schools. Orfield was part of a 12-person task force that recommends greater oversight of how schools spend…

February 15, 2012 —Professor Myron Orfield was part of the Minnesota Department of Education's Integration Revenue Replacement Task Force…

February 14, 2012 —Professor Myron Orfield and Vice President Walter Mondale were quoted in a Pioneer Press article, entitled "How Obama Administration got St. Paul to Pull Landlord Suit Out of Supreme Court." Both Orfield…

February 14, 2012 —A 2010 report by the Institute on Race and Poverty was referenced in a Detroit Free Press article on the Detroit school system. As the state of Michigan moves to replace failing public schools with…

February 13, 2012 —Professor Myron Orfield's demographic research about black middle-class suburbanization and housing discrimination was discussed on Minnesota Public Radio. The MPR piece was on Minnesota's shrinking black middle…

December 23, 2011 —Professor Myron Orfield was featured in a Huffington Post article entitled "Myron Orfield, Scholar, Says Ethnicity-Targeted Charter Schools Feel Like 'Jim Crow Segregation'." The article cited Orfield's interview…

December 21, 2011 —Professor Myron Orfield was quoted in a Bloomberg News story entitled "Segregated Charter Schools Evoke Separate But Equal Era in U.S. Education." The article stated, "While charter-school leaders say…

November 6, 2011 —Professor Myron Orfield was a guest on WCCO's "News & Views With Susie Jones" to discuss the spread of poverty into the first ring suburbs.

November 3, 2011 —Professor Myron Orfield will be the College of Continuing Education's November "Headliner," where he will discuss "American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality" and explore the economic, environmental, and…

October 27, 2011 —Professor Myron Orfield was quoted on MinnPost.com on a new Brooking Institutions study showing growing suburban poverty. Orfield said that while suburbs are getting poorer, "It's not all of them. It tends to be…