Assignment:
In preparing for a meeting with the school board, an interesting study came across your desk. A study of a multi-racial group of high school students, by Grace Kao in 2000, revealed that different students groups define success in different ways:
1. White and Asian students define success in school as earning high grades.
2. African-American students define success as doing as well as other black students and not failing.
3. Hispanic students define success as attaining a white-collar job in an office after graduation.
4. Discuss the extent to which you believe these self-perceptions are created by the ways in which American society defines race and ethnicity.
5. Discuss ways that you think educators can change these perceptions.