It
tests readers» commitment to the subject - those who are serious about entering the profession will read on,
others will be turned off
by reading about the long hours and restrictions on partisan comment.
Readers may also wish to read an important new essay
by sociologist George Farkas, «The Black - White
Test Score Gap» (Contexts, Spring 2004), which says that the racial rift is caused, more than any
other thing,
by divergent child - rearing practices (and preschool opportunities).