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Bringing up things like poverty or parental education is a red herring. An Asian student from a family earning $0-10k has a higher average SAT math score than a
by epsylon 12y ago
Bringing up things like poverty or parental education is a red herring. An Asian student from a family earning $0-10k has a higher average SAT math score than a black student from a family earning $70k+.
I disagree that this is a red herring. Children of wealthy parents perform better academically, plain and simple, across all races, gender, immigrant status or not. (This is true everywhere in the world.) The fact that first-gen immigrant children might perform better due is simply due to a sampling bias.
- pc86 12y agoYou really can't just throw your hands in the air and say "No, that's sampling bias." Do you have a source to support your claim?
- epsylon 12y agoA bit late on my answer, but this is a well-studied phenomenon: http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2011/12/15-school-readiness-isaacs http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2011/12/15-school-... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/education/education-gap-grows-between-rich-and-poor-studies-show.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/education/education-gap-gr... http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109074/chapters/How-Poverty-Affects-Behavior-and-Academic-Performance.aspx http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/109074/chapters/How-P... Also, as trustfundbaby said earlier in the thread: "Group success in America often tends to dissipate after two generations. Thus while Asian-American kids overall had SAT scores 143 points above average in 2012 — including a 63-point edge over whites — a 2005 study of over 20,000 adolescents found that third-generation Asian-American students performed no better academically than white students" I don't doubt that there is a significant Asian culture effect, but in this case it seems that the "immigrant effect" plays a big, if not greater role.