Multiracial Pupils to Be Counted in A New Way

Washington region and elsewhere are abandoning their check-one-box approach to gathering information about race and ethnicity in an effort to develop a more accurate portrait of classrooms transformed by immigration and interracial marriage. Next year, they will begin a separate count of students who are of more than one race. Michael Alison Chandler and Maria Glod, The Washington Post, 3/23/2009