Asian American Students
Education
A Look at Asian-American Students
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund came out with a report this month that calls for the No Child Left Behind Act to require a breakout of test scores according to the ethnicity of Asian students. The report also calls for the federal law to support the expansion of native-language testing. Read my colleague David Hoff's article about the report, published yesterday at edweek.org.
Federal
Report Cites Asian-Americans' NCLB Issues
Schools are failing to identify such students under the No Child Left Behind Act and to get them the academic interventions they need, a report says.
Education
Overlooking Asian Underachievers
We talked last week about how stereotypes of African-American students can encourage them to play down their smarts. This week, I'd like to point your attention to this story in the Chicago Tribune that talks about the inverse of that phenomenon.
Education
Southeast Asian Students Are Often Overlooked
Read "Struggling Asians go unnoticed," published today in the Chicago Tribune, to learn more about how and why educators may not give as much attention to Asian students who struggle with English or other subjects than students from other regions of the world.
Education
GAO Report: Some Asian Groups Outpace Others in Education
It's useful to look at the findings of a recent United States Government Accountability Office report and note how various groups of people of Asian heritage are faring in getting college and university degrees. Inside Higher Ed notes that it's important for educators not to assume that all Asian-American students are doing better in school than everyone else—and don't need any help. The report shows that 13 percent of Cambodian, Laotian, and Hmong adults attain at least a 4-year degree while 68 percent of Asian Indian adults do so.
Education
Letter to the Editor
Even the ‘Model Minority’ Has Students With Needs
Thank you for finally acknowledging the struggles as well as the successes of Asian-American students.
Assessment
Breaking Down the Asian Stereotype
The stereotype of the highly motivated, high-achieving Asian student is hard not to buy into because Asian-Americans, as a group, outperfrom all other minorities in virtually all categories, and they beat white students on most measures too.
Student Achievement
Making Higher Ed. History, Headlines
The University of California made admissions history last spring when, for the first time, Asian-Americans constituted the largest single racial group to receive admission offers across the system’s undergraduate campuses.
Equity & Diversity
The ‘Other’ Gap
The performance of Asian-American students has been largely ignored in the national debate over raising student achievement. But experts say it’s high time for a closer look at a very diverse group.
Equity & Diversity
South Asians Have Concerns About Immigration Policy, Too
Latinos have been the most visible group at the wave of immigrant-rights rallies across the country this spring. But youths of South Asian heritage in New York City want America to know that they and their families are the face of immigration, too.
Education
Report Roundup
U.S. Asian Population
According to the Census Bureau, Asian is defined as “people having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent.”
School & District Management
Who Is 'Asian'? Cultural Differences Defy Simple Categories
In 1998-99, Asian-Americans accounted for just 8 percent of California's K-12 enrollment, yet represented 40 percent of the student body at one of the state's most highly regarded institutions of higher education, the University of California, Berkeley.
Equity & Diversity
Beyond the Common Battleground
It takes just one look at the San Francisco schools to see that desegregation reaches far beyond black and white.
Equity & Diversity
Educational Needs of Asian-Americans Highlighted
Washington
Americans of Asian and Pacific descent face unique and frequently ignored educational challenges, a report on the status of minorities in higher education concludes.