Asian Americans In Schools Essay

Across the board, Asian Americans outperform all other ethnic groups in education. They also choose to enroll themselves into upper level math courses when offered more often the other ethnic groups, as well as, do twice the amount of homework when compared to other ethnic groups. Asian Americans represent just roughly two percent of the nation’s population. However, the number of Asian Americans that are freshman enrolled at universities and institutions across the nation have a much stronger ratio. Studies have not supported the idea that this gap in education performance is not due to genetics, but have supported the idea that the gap is due to culture and how learning and education are perceived in the home. This Study of Asian American educational performance in comparison to other ethnic groups affects me personally. It is also …show more content…
Instead of the previous statement, could the gap between the test scores of Asian Americans and other ethnic groups be due to the possibility that Asian Americans are better test takers than the other ethnic groups? Could something culturally and the nature of their home provide a different environment that the children are commonly exposed to? If there children are commonly exposed to a high stress environment in the home, similar to a test, are the better prepared to the typical stressful atmosphere of a test, better preparing them for the test, thus increasing their test scores? This again would be due to the cultural differences, education stressed more in the homes of Asian Americans as opposed to the not so stressed education in the homes of other ethnic groups. This would mean instead of the Asian Americans being smarter, they simply preform better on tests. This interpretation and many other questions could be solved with further