[I]mmigrant students actually do better if they begin their American education in high school rather than in elementary or middle school.
Foreign-Born Students New to N.Y. Outshine Native Born
by Sarah Garland
New York Sun
February 11, 2008 Edition
the nativity gap
Offhand, I don't see how an IQ difference between Asians and other races easily accounts for this.
ReplyDeleteI tend to think effort doesn't account for it, either, given how much supplemental work Asian immigrant families seem to give their kids.
The one clear difference between immigrant Asian students who arrived in this country as little kids versus immigrant Asian students who arrived in this country as teens is that immigrant teens learned math using Asian math curricula.