“We earn our way to cultural competence one rapid at a time, feeling the full force of the river, giving ourselves to its power, and discovering our way in its flow. It is a life-long adventure worthy of our full attention. For the sake of the richly diverse children, families, communities, and schools that we serve, it is imperative that some of us in the vocation of education find our way to this place of authentic engagement within and across our differences. Testing will surely never take us there, but love might.” Gary Howard from http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/multicultural/howard.htm