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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For some reason Asian kids did fine during the pandemic. Their scores, including SAT scores, just keep going up. Why is that? [/quote]

The article says that the downward trend was from 2013.   Asian-Americans have already figured out that there are a lot of weaknesses in American education system and so they have been supplementing and teaching their kids at home.

Mostly the Asian-American parents (and specifically the moms) are very well-educated and can teach Math to their children so the children are coming out ahead in STEM. Culturally, there is a huge emphasis on education within families and the community as a whole.  Finally, most Asian-Americans first gen were highly educated people from their countries who came to the US. They are not the poorest of the poor, uneducated migrants.

The weaknesses in American education system that most Asians notice and try to overcome are -
1) Shortened school year
2) Lack of textbooks
3) Lack of final exams
4) Lack of discipline in classrooms. Disruptive students are tolerated. Parents are not responsible.
5) Lack of a well defined curriculum, syllabus that is shared with students and parents.  Textbooks and units of study that are mapped to the syllabus and curriculum.  
6) Not failing any students in any grade and holding them back
7) Grade inflation. Students earn grades for doing homework. 
8) Graded assignments and tests are not returned back to students and parents. 
9) No comprehensive, standardized curriculum, syallabus, textbooks, testing and school year nationally for all grades and all subjects.  Even SAT is going away.

What the US does extremely well -
1) Free education for everybody
2) Free transportation for coming and going to school
3) Free meals
4) Free school supplies. 
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