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From: Richard Jensen <rjensen@UIC.EDU>
List Editor: Richard Jensen <rjensen@UIC.EDU>
Editor's Subject: H-ETHNIC: NY Times on Asian American students
Author's Subject: H-ETHNIC: NY Times on Asian American students
Date Written: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:45:05 -0600
Date Posted: Mon, 28 Oct 2012 00:45:05 -0400

from jerry krase at jerrykrase@aol.com

see http://tinyurl.com/8ekfr4l  for
full text

i thought some on the list would be interested in this new york times
story on the success of asian students in new york city high schools.
i think the writer did an unusually good job by interviewing a wide
variety of students and families.

the  fact that i am quoted in the story is an extra.

jerry krase at jerrykrase@aol.com



For Asians, School Tests Are Vital Steppingstones
By KYLE SPENCER
Published: October 26, 2012 New York Times
"Ting Shi said his first two years in the United States were
wretched. He slept in a bunk bed in the same room with his
grandparents and a cousin in Chinatown, while his parents lived on
East 89th Street, near a laundromat where they endured 12-hour
shifts. He saw them only on Sundays....."
etc

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