The Civil Rights Project/ El Proyecto de CRP, originally named The Civil Rights Project, is a renowned
multidisciplinary
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research
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and
policy
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think tank
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focused on issues of racial justice. In January 2007, The Civil Rights Project moved from
Harvard University
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to the
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at
UCLA
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...
.
Mission
Its mission is to help renew the
civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the Unite ...
by:
* Bridging the worlds of ideas and action
* Becoming a preeminent source of
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and
* Becoming a forum for building consensus within
that movement.
Founders
It was founded by
Christopher Edley, Jr. (formerly of
Harvard Law School, now Dean of
Boalt Hall
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Law School at
UC Berkeley
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) and
Gary Orfield (formerly of
Harvard Graduate School of Education, now Professor of Education at UCLA's
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies) in 1996 to provide needed intellectual capital to academics, policy makers and civil rights advocates.
School segregation studies
The Project has published a series of monographs on school segregation in various states. These studies are frequently cited in national publications with comparative statistics by state.
The Project uses a key metric: "percentage of black students in majority black schools." Any percentage above zero indicates a concentration of blacks in a relatively small number of schools. A corollary measure is "percentage of black students in majority white schools." The Project defines ''intensely segregated'' as schools that have less than ten percent white enrollment.
See also
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Teaching for social justice
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References
Faculty profile of Christopher Edley, Jr. (19 August 2005).
CRP moves to UCLA articleThe Civil Rights Project Mission Statement (19 August 2005).
The Civil Rights Project Mission Statement third paragraph, (19 August 2005).
External links
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University of California, Los Angeles