In mid-December 1990, we called a 2-day No-Host meeting of researchers,
educators and children's advocates at Berkeley to examine and interpret
the data, to try to agree on what the data allowed us to say, and to decide
how we might say it most effectively and forcefully. The 35 participants at
this meeting came from all over the country, and represented a broad spectrum
of ethnic groups, academic institutions and disciplines, and advocacy
groups. 9 Several individuals who could not travel to Berkeley participated in