Chronicle Article on Asian Americans

Educational Problems of Asian-Americans May Be Overlooked Because of Stereotypes, Report Says By PETER SCHMIDT The popular image of Asian-Americans as academically successful ignores the tremendous amount of variation among different subsets of that population, according to a report released on Monday by a research collaborative involving the College Board and two institutes at New York University. The collaborative, called the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education, argues in its report that "there is no such thing" as a composite for all of the ethnic groups that it studies, and figures such as the average SAT scores for that population mask how it is overrepresented at both ends of the achievement spectrum. Read the rest of this article here: http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=PM8qgfphwtbYmyrPJNY93SGjf6swxjdb