Abstract
ABSTRACTRecent studies of ethnic minority group education in the United States include comparative analyses between the growing cohort of Asian-Americans and the ethnic minorities of longer standing. The educational record of Asian-Americans, especially that of recent immigrants, tends to be markedly superior to the patterns of poor school adjustment, low achievement, and high dropout rates among American Indians, blacks, and Hispanics. A current view in the literature posits a causal link between group cultural traits and the apparent paradox of Asian success and ethnic minority failure patterns. But a historical view shows that many Asian immigrants have received in their home countries a rigorous education tending to focus on science, technology, and related areas. In the United States they are a select group whose succeeding generations replicate their parents' upwardly mobile educational and economic patterns that surpass those of all other ethnic groups, even whites. Asian immigrant successes are la...
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