Another Washington Post Article

So its all old news to us multiracials, but the problem of the box-checking seems to be coming to light once again as formats are going to change:

"Starting in 2010, under Education Department rules approved two years ago to comply with a government-wide policy shift, parents will be able to check all boxes that apply in a two-step questionnaire with reshaped categories. First, they will indicate whether a student is of Hispanic or Latino origin, or not. (The two terms will encompass one group.) Then they will identify a student as one or more of the following: American Indian or Alaska native; Asian; black or African American; native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; or white."

I apparently didn't realize that this was still an issue. But it seems to be, still as the article came out in just March. This is the article.

Anyway its an interesting read, although it wasn't really anything new to me :)