Multicultural education is for the sake of accuracy. I guess I'm arguing that accuracy is its first and most important goal. A second response to your question: I'd like to suggest that multicultural education, then, is needed as much by the White child in Scarsdale as it is by the African American child in Harlem. It's needed by all of our students because, first, all of our students need accuracy, or as close as we can get to it. The more perspectives we have, the more closely we approximate accuracy. Second, multicultural education is needed by all students-s much by White children in the suburbs as it is by Latino children in inner-city communities.