With the number of nonwhite Americans above 100 million for the first time, demographers are identifying an emerging racial generation gap. The Census Bureau estimated that from July 1, 2005, to July 1, 2006, the nation’s minority population grew to 100.7 million from 98.3 million which is about one in three of all Americans.

• An Analysis of the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS) led William Jeynes, professor of education at California State University, found no disparity in academic performance between highly religious African American and Latino students from "intact" families and white students. 
• The findings refute assertions that were made in the controversial and best-selling book The Bell Curve.
  • The 1994 book by Richard J. Hernstein and Charles Murray claimed that gaps in student achievement were the natural result of variation in students' genetic makeup and natural ability. 
• Jeynes' analysis of a study on a national sample of 20,706 12th-grade high school students indicated that highly religious African American and Latino students from intact families, when controlling for socioeconomic status, scored equally as well as white students on the social studies test and the Test Composite (combination of math and reading).

• 17 percent of U.S. youngsters are obese
• Overweight preschoolers have a five times higher risk of being fat at age 12 than do lean preschoolers according to data on more than 2,000 3-year-olds from a study that tracks from birth children born to low-income families in 20 large U.S. cities.
• Thirty-two percent of the white and black tots were either overweight or obese
  • 44 percent of the Hispanics.