Illinois issues: The racial achievement gap
Illinois issues: The racial achievement gap
- November 12, 2015
- A book by Jennifer Lee, sociology professor, is featured by NPR Nov 12, 2015
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From NPR:
As sociologists Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou and many other scholars have recently shown,
Asian American’s collectively are doing quite well in large part because of how immigration
laws are written— to admit the most highly educated members of sending countries —
not because of the cultural value put on education.
For the full story, please visit http://wuis.org/post/illinois-issues-racial-achievement-gap#stream/0.
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