Asian American Students
Equity & Diversity
Undocumented Asian Youth Seek Higher Profile in Immigration Debate
Young Asian immigrants who were brought illegally to the United States as children have launched a social media campaign to raise the profile of undocumented Asian youths in the broader debate over immigration reform.
Equity & Diversity
Parsing Performance Among Asian-Heritage Students
The U.S. Department of Education is looking for promising practices in disaggregating data for Asian-heritage students.
Education
Study: New York's Asian Students Need Better Support, Data
A new report called "We Can't Even Ask For Help" looks to debunk the myth of the "model minority," which, the authors say, can lead to Asian-heritage students not getting the help they need.
School & District Management
Study: Asian Students Uncounted, Underserved in N.Y.C. Schools
A report highlights the discrepancy between the public perception of Asian-heritage students as universally high-achieving and the reality.
Equity & Diversity
Report Roundup
Asian-Americans in College
The needs of the Asian-American and Pacific Islander population have not figured high in the nation's higher education agenda.
Equity & Diversity
Report Calls for Inclusion of Asian Students in College Agenda
Despite being one of the fastest-growing minorities in the United States, the Asian American and Pacific Islander population has not been adequately researched or its needs considered in the the higher education agenda, a new report released today says.
Student Achievement
Group Finds Research Lacking for Asian/Pacific Islander Students
A forthcoming report suggests research on Asian and Pacific Islander students often does not reflect demographic differences within the group.
Equity & Diversity
Philadelphia District Settles Over Violence Against Asians
The Philadelphia School District settled with the Pennsylvania Human Rights Commission and the federal government over complaints filed with them about violence against Asian students at South Philadelphia High School on Dec. 9, 2009.
School Climate & Safety
Complaint Says Phila. District 'Indifferent' to Harassment of Asians
An advocacy group accuses the district of ‘intentional discrimination,’ but the school system says the charge is unfair.
School Climate & Safety
Attacks on Asian Students in Phila. Spur Complaint
An advocacy group accuses the district of ‘intentional discrimination,’ but the school system says the charge is unfair.
School Climate & Safety
News in Brief
Asian Students Protest Treatment
Philadelphia's superintendent says she wants to make sure that violence against Asian students at South Philadelphia High School does not continue.
Education
Defiant Student in Storm Lake Gets Backing from Asian-American Group
The Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund is calling for the Storm Lake school district in Iowa to remove any references to suspension or disciplinary action from the record of a student who refused to take an English-language proficiency test. See my previous post about the matter, "A Storm in Storm Lake."
Education
One in Four Asian Children in New York City Is Poor
Many of you who have had English-language learners from Asian families in your classrooms know that some of these children don't fit the stereotype that some Americans have of them of primarily coming from well-educated families whose parents work in high-tech jobs or at universities. But a report released today by the Asian American Federation based on U.S. Census data has some statistics that you may not have heard about the extent of poverty among Asian children in New York City.
Federal
Asian-Americans and NCLB
My colleague David Hoff has a great article on our Web site now about a group that contends Asian-American children are being shortchanged under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.