Why Asian American kids excel. It’s not ‘Tiger Moms.
Why Asian American kids excel. It’s not ‘Tiger Moms.
- April 8, 2014
- Research by Jennifer Lee, sociology professor, is featured in The Washington Post April 8, 2014
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From The Post:
Why do Asian American students outpace everyone else academically? The most publicized
attempt to answer that question — a few years ago, by Yale Law School professor Amy
Chua — set off a controversy that rages to this day. But a new study published in
the journal “Race and Social Problems” by two California scholars takes on Chua, suggesting
that with all the economic resources at her disposal — she and her husband are Yale
professors with highly-educated parents — her children’s success is just as likely
the result of socioeconomic and cultural advantages, generally cited by scholars as
the main reason some children do better than others. The authors of “The Success Frame
and Achievement Paradox: The Costs and Consequences for Asian Americans” are Min Zhou,
professor of sociology and Asian American Studies at the Univ. of California at Los
Angeles, currently on leave at Nanyang Technological University, and Jennifer Lee,
professor of sociology at the Univ. of California at Irvine.
For the full story, please visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/08/forget-tige....
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