Summary
All kinds of good connotations go with the word majority. Not the least is that in any competition, when you get a majority, you're a winner. By the same token, minorities are widely viewed as losers -- people who somehow don't and maybe can't ever make it. Well, in California today, it's all changed. Former minorities of Latinos, African Americans, Asians, and other racial and ethnic groups are the new majority in the population. And among the public school children the population of the future, they are 65 percent of all the students -- a 2 to 1 majority over the minorities who are mostly all white. I say to all of my fellow whites, we had better be prepared to learn to live as the new minority in our midst. Try that one for size!
The truth of what we have uncovered in our surveys in California, New York and Wisconsin is that the real reason these most at-risk kids don't learn is that the schools they go to are terrifyingly lacking the basic conditions for them to be educated. They've been doomed before they were born to a mock education that is bound to make them born losers.If we have a half-literate labor force, we will never compete abroad. If we have people who can't get good jobs, then consumer demand will slump. Let's face it. If we don't change our ways, we could end up a giant banana republic. With a few of the super-rich and masses of the poor.See the full content of this document
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The Importance of Educating the Emerging Majority
The chilling picture emerging in this country is a two-tiered public school system: one for the more affluent, who enjoy the privileges of a relatively healthy educational environment, and the other for the least privileged racial and ethnic groups, who suffer an educational envir...
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