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• Beyond Black and White: The Model Minority Myth and the Invisibility of Asian American Students

  1/1/07 - Wing, Jean

  This study of diverse Asian American students at a racially integrated public high school illustrates that the achievement gap is a multi-racial problem that cannot be well understood solely in terms of the trajectories of Black and white students. Asian American students demonstrated a high academic profile on average, but faced difficulties and failure in ways rendered invisible by widespread acceptance of the “Model Minority Myth,” which says that Asians comprise the racial minority...

• Beyond Black and white: The model minority myth and the invisibility of Asian American students

  1/1/07 - Wing, Jean Yonemura

  This study of diverse Asian American students at a racially integrated public high school illustrates that the achievement gap is a multi-racial problem that cannot be well understood solely in terms of the trajectories of Black and white students. Asian American students demonstrated a high academic profile on average, but faced difficulties and failure in ways rendered invisible by widespread acceptance of the "Model Minority Myth," which says that Asians comprise the racial minority group...

• Burden of acting neither White nor Black: Asian American identities and achievement in urban schools

  1/1/06 - Lew, Jamie

  Ogbu's theory of "burden of acting white" has been one of the most frequently cited studies to explain black and white achievement gap. However, emerging studies have argued that Ogbu's theory may be limited when examining variability of school achievement among black and white students. Research shows that in addition to culture, other social forces, such as class, peer networks, and school context may play a significant role when accounting for minority students' academic aspirations and...

• The roles of parenting styles and social capital in the school performance of immigrant Asian and Hispanic adolescents

  1/1/05 - Pong, Suet-ling, Hao, Lingxin, Gardner, Erica

  Objective: This study investigates the role of parenting styles and social capital (parental involvement, intergenerational closure, expectation, and trust) in accounting for school performance among ethnic groups and across immigrant generations. Methods: Using data from the Adolescent Health Survey, we estimate fixed-effects models to analyze students' grade-point averages. We compare three generations of Asian students and three generations of Hispanic students to the third-generation...

• "My Trouble is my English": Asian Students and the American Dream

  1/1/95 - Fu, Danling
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  A new diverse majority: students of color in the South's public schools

  1/22/10 - Southern Education Foundation,

  "For the first time in history, public schools in the American South no longer enroll a majority of White students. African American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, American Indian, and multi-racial children now constitute slightly more than half of all students attending public schools in the 15 states of the South. The Southern states have become the nation’s second region, following the West in 2003, where non-White students—students of color—now make up a majority of public...

• An Approach to Eradicating the Achievement Gap: Making Instruction Meaningful

  1/1/08 - Campos, David

  The article discusses how lessons taught to white and Asian students may eliminate the achievement gap. According to the author, social factors affect children of color including African American and Latino school children making them not as proficient as their white and Asian-American counterparts. An overview of the lesson plan reflecting questions on the students' personal experience that relate to social, political, and economic conditions is offered. The author suggests that teachers...

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  Asian American Pacific Islander Youth Development and Violence Prevention Programs

  1/12/09 - Larke N. Huang , Girlyn Arganza

  "This matrix of Asian American/Pacific Islander programs provides a snapshot of over 50 programs across the country focusing on AAPI youth development and prevention of high-risk behaviors. It captures the variation in emphases and populations, innovative strategies and collaborations, the wealth of materials, including culturally-based curriculum and evaluation instruments developed by these programs, and the sources of funding ranging from the conventional to the creative. Contact...

• Examining the "Model Minority Myth": A Review of "Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap among Korean American Youth"

  1/1/08 - Amos, Yukari Takimoto
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  Investigating the Links to Improved Student Learning: Final report of Research Findings

  1/21/10 - Louis, Karen Seashore, Leithwood, Kenneth, Wahlstrom, Kyla L., Anderson, Stephen E.

  Education is widely held to be crucial for the survival and success of individualsand countries in the emerging global environment. U.S. politicians of all stripes have placed education at the center of their political platforms, and education has been at the center of many European and Asian policy agendas. Comparable agreement is also evident about the contributions of leadership to the implementation of virtually all initiatives aimed at improving student learning and the quality of...

• Putting the "affirm" into affirmative action: Preferential selection and academic performance

  1/1/00 - Brown, Ryan P., Charnsangavej, Tonyamas, Keough, Kelli A., Newman, Matthew L., Rentfrow, Peter J.

  Two studies explored the relation between academic performance and preferential selection. In Study 1, female participants were led to believe that they had been selected to be leaders in a team problem-solving task because of their gender, because of their gender and ability, or at random. Results showed that women who believed they had been selected because of their gender performed significantly worse on a subsequent problem-solving test than women who believed they had been selected at...

• Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We know, How Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know?

  1/1/03 - Farkas, George

  This paper reviews what we have learned about racial discrepancies in education, with particular attention to those that might be attributable to discrimination. Empirical studies have found that, on average, African American, Latino, and American Indian children arrive at kindergarten or first grade with lower levels of oral language, prereading, and premathematics skills, as well as lesser general knowledge, than that possessed by White and Asian American children. African American...

• Racial Disparities and Discrimination in Education: What Do We Know, How Do We Know It, and What Do We Need to Know?

  1/1/03 - Farkas, George

  This paper reviews what we have learned about racial discrepancies in education, with particular attention to those that might be attributable to discrimination. Empirical studies have found that, on average, African American, Latino, and American Indian children arrive at kindergarten or first grade with lower levels of oral language, prereading, and premathematics skills, as well as lesser general knowledge, than that possessed by White and Asian American children. African American...

• School racial composition and academic achievement: the case of Hmong LEP students in the USA

  1/1/08 - Lee, Moosung, Madyun, Na'im

  The existence of the achievement gap is more than just a black-white issue; contrary to stereotypes, it is a concern within Asian homes. Hmong students underachieve in comparison with many East Asian students. Traditional cultural practices and poverty have been identified as explanatory factors. Our data suggest that a more critical factor might be within-school segregation. Utilising a racial exposure statistic, it was found that the more diverse a school became, the higher the achievement...

• Stigma Consciousness and the Race Gap in College Academic Achievement

  1/1/05 - Brown, Ryan P., Lee, Monica N.

  Stereotyped individuals vary in how chronically self-conscious they are of their stigmatized status, a variable called stigma consciousness. The present study examined whether stigma consciousness was negatively related to academic achievement in college for academically stigmatized (Black and Hispanic) students, but not for academically non-stigmatized (White and Asian) students. Results revealed that stigmatized students who were high in stigma consciousness had lower GPAs than stigmatized...

• Teacher expectations, classroom context, and the achievement gap

  1/1/08 - McKown, Clark, Weinstein, Rhona S.

  In two independent datasets with 1872 elementary-aged children in 83 classrooms, Studies 1 and 2 examined the role of classroom context in moderating the relationship between child ethnicity and teacher expectations. For Study 1 overall and Study 2 mixed-grade classrooms, in ethnically diverse classrooms where students reported high levels of differential teacher treatment (PDT) towards high and low achieving students, teacher expectations of European American and Asian American students...