Stuyvesant High: Asian-American domination in elite schools triggers resentment, soul searching
Stuyvesant High: Asian-American domination in elite schools triggers resentment, soul searching
- March 26, 2014
- Jennifer Lee, sociology professor, is quoted in the International Business Times March 26, 2014
From the International Business Times:
The rise of Asian-Americans and their dominance in academia may be exemplified by
the extraordinary performance of Asian-American students in New York City... Guofang
Li, an associate professor of second language and literacy education in the Department
of Teacher Education of Michigan State University, is one scholar who does not believe
that admission-by-testing is unfair to anyone. “In a culture where Asians are still
a minority group -- and often marginalized in society-- tests are actually providing
a good pathway for Asians to get opportunities like ... attending a good school with
good resources ... which can help them get into a better university and hopefully
better employment in the future,” she said in an interview. But Jennifer Lee, a professor
of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, believes that admission testing
is quite unfair to economically disadvantaged Hispanics and blacks. “Access to unequal
resources will result in unequal outcomes,” she said. “Until we can provide adequate
resources for all New York City children to prepare for admissions tests, we will
continue see racial disparities in admissions to schools like Stuyvesant.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.ibtimes.com/stuyvesant-high-asian-american-domination-elite-s....
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