Asians outperform white students because they try harder, study finds
Asian-American schoolchildren tend to outperform their white counterparts in school because they try harder, according to a US study out Monday.
Asian-American schoolchildren tend to outperform their white counterparts in school because they try harder, according to a US study out Monday.
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May 5, 2014
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Pathways exist for children to succeed in life, confirmed a group of researchers, policymakers, lawyers, and educators gathered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). However, they acknowledged that obstacles ...
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Apr 16, 2014
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The bi-partisan federal legislation in the US popularly known as "No Child Left Behind" was passed during George W Bush's first term. It had two important goals: to increase scientifically based education research and to ...
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Mar 5, 2014
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Americans don't like to talk about social class. But new research from Northwestern and Stanford universities suggests that, at least in college and university settings, they should do just that.
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Feb 14, 2014
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A Murdoch University researcher says Australia should strive to have every school be a good school, and is calling on Federal political party leaders to clarify their positions on how they intend to implement recommendations ...
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Aug 21, 2013
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Children from low-income families tend to do worse at school than their better-off peers. Now a new study of a large ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of children from across the United States has identified ...
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Jul 2, 2013
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State policymakers' attention to teacher quality—an issue education research shows is essential to improving schooling outcomes for racial minority students—is highly responsive to low graduation rates among white students, ...
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Jun 20, 2013
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With school out and a long summer break ahead, many children are in danger of forgetting what they've learned during the academic year.
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Jun 12, 2013
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Many elementary students' math performance improves when their teachers collaborate, work in professional learning communities or do both, yet most students don't spend all of their elementary school years in these settings, ...
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Jun 5, 2013
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Mexican American mothers' formal immigration status affects the educational achievement of their children and even their grandchildren, according to a study written by Penn State and University of California, Irvine, sociologists ...
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May 29, 2013
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