{"id":8211,"date":"2011-04-05T18:04:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-05T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T18:04:23","slug":"Asian-American-students-continue-to-outpace-everyone-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=8211","title":{"rendered":"Asian American students continue to outpace everyone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

And we really need to know why Asia is taking over the world?
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\nA new study from the Center on Education Policy underscores how significantly Asian American students outpace their peers<\/strong>, particularly in Maryland and Virginia.<\/p>\n

The data focus on student achievement on eighth-grade state standardized tests, including a rare analysis of student performance at advanced levels<\/strong>. It is at those levels that the exceptional \u2014 and rapidly improving \u2014 achievement of Asian American middle- schoolers<\/strong> was most pronounced.<\/p>\n

Nationwide, the percentage of Asian American students scoring in the upper echelons on math exams was 17 points higher than the percentage of white students<\/strong>. Notably, that gap has continued to widen in more recent years. In Virginia, for example, Asian American students\u2019 advanced-level math performance leapt from 59 percent to 76 percent between 2006 and 2009, compared with an increase from 43 percent to 58 percent for white students.<\/p>\n

In Maryland, that same pattern was apparent on reading tests. The percentage of Asian American students who tested in advanced levels grew from 40 percent to 58 percent<\/strong> between 2006 and 2009. The percentage of white students in that category grew from 35 percent to 48 percent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lesson for other groups is that effort counts. Asian American students are working harder, doing better and getting ahead<\/strong>,\u201d said Jack Jennings, president of the Center on Education Policy.<\/p>\n

In Fairfax and Montgomery counties, Asian American students outperform their white peers at the advanced level in several subject areas<\/strong>, but those gaps do not appear to be growing at the same pace as in the rest of their states or the nation.<\/p>\n

Fairfax officials said they hadn\u2019t studied the issue. \u201cWhen we look at the achievement gap, we look at white and Asian students on one side<\/strong>, and African American and Latinos on the other,\u201d said Fairfax County Public Schools spokesman Paul Regnier. \u201cThat particular gap isn\u2019t something we\u2019ve looked at specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jennings points out that the Asian American subgroup is an imperfect monolith \u2014 including students whose families hail from countries as diverse as Japan and Jordan<\/strong>. There are clear disparities within the subgroup. Pacific Islanders, for example, don\u2019t perform as well as Korean students on standardized tests.<\/p>\n

But in most states, Asian Americans \u2014 sometimes labeled a \u201cmodel minority\u201d \u2014 outperformed all other subpopulations<\/strong>. Some scholars are quick to argue against that label, saying it plays down the diversity, and the challenges, that pervade the subpopulation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn reality, there are significant numbers of Asian American and Pacific Islander students who struggle with poverty, who are English-language learners increasingly likely to leave school with rudimentary language skills<\/strong>, who are at risk of dropping out, joining gangs and remaining on the margins of society,\u201d said a 2008 report, \u201cFacts, Not Fiction: Setting the Record Straight,\u201d from the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander Research in Education.<\/p>\n

The achievement gap is most commonly measured by the number of students who are considered \u201cproficient\u201d in a given subject. By those measures, the gap between historically underperforming minority groups and white students is shrinking in eighth grade, according to the study. But when the data focuses on achievement at advanced levels, the gap is widening \u2014 between white and Asian students, but also between African American and Hispanic students and their white peers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like we\u2019re raising the bottom, but not so much helping students in the middle get to the top,\u201d Jennings said.<\/p>\n

Source www.washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/em>
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