Demographics
“The percentage of people of color in the nation will continue to rise throughout the early decades of the next century. Indeed, the 1990 census revealed that one out of every four people who live in the United States is a person of color ant that one our of every three people will be a person of color by the turn of the century. Likewise, the ethnic and racial makeup of the nation’s classrooms is changing significantly. Students of color constitute a majority in twenty five of nation’s largest school districts and in California, our most populous state with a populations of thirty million people. Students of color will make up near half (46%) of the nation’s school-age youth by 2020, and about 27 %of those students will be victims of poverty.” (Banks 1)