September 1, 2006
Education Department May Give Students More Options in Identifying Their Race
The U.S. Department of Education has proposed an overhaul of how it collects statistics on students' racial backgrounds, including a long-awaited proposal to allow students to identify themselves as belonging to more than one racial category.
That proposal and others — including one that would ask students whether they identified themselves as Hispanic, regardless of race — are contained in "proposed guidance" that was published in the Federal Register in
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