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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In Asian communities you do not see the academic achievement gap between high and low SES students. Low SES students perform just as well and much of this is cultural expectations that given the opportunity you must do well. Asian communities put less emphasis on being born gifted and see academic achievement as a product of hard work. 
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MCPS teacher here. With the new standards, hard work isn't enough to achieve academically. I have 6 Asian American students who are struggling. All are native English speakers with highly educated parents. They spend hours working on relatively simple assignments and still don't earn the A. Why? They haven't mastered the skill of applying what they've learned to a new situation/problem. When I speak with these students and their parents, they are studying through the old methods of drilling and memorization.

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This has got to be the same moronic teacher that made my blood boil a month or so ago saying that parents should blindly trust teachers regarding student placement.  I think she teaches at my kids school.[/quote]

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