Harold Hodgkinson Reading

Unlike the Education Primer which basically summed up the statistical aspects of our education and public school systems, Hodgkinson concentrated more on the students within the classroom. One thing that stood out to me from the reading was fact two from the "race facts" which said that the 2000 census allows you to check as many race boxes as a person wishes. But I never realized the questions that might come of checking three boxes as I do (black, white Caucasian and Native American). How did my SAT test scores, for example, count for each check box. Tiger Woods was used as an example in the reading, questioning of his four boxes checked, does that make him four people?

I completely agree with the information regarding desegregation and how it has not helped economic equality. It is very true I believe as the article states, that for the US to be such a wealthy country the poverty level is ironically very low. Now that we have reached racial desegregation in our nation, equally important to the future of our children today is economic desegregation. A child should not suffer from "underprivileged education" as I refer to it as, because of a economic situation, more often basing from their families, branching out to their communities, none of which they have any control over.