Asian-American Students Struggling Under NCLB, Group Says

A group is arguing that data for Asian Americans needs to be further disaggregated, because the wide-ranging cultures and languages of Asian Americans makes that designation fairly meaningless, and can hide low-performing Asian groups. If I remember correctly, several Southeast Asian-American groups do have much lower performance than the Asian American Average when data are disaggregated to that level.

Schools are failing to identify struggling Asian-American students under the No Child Left Behind Act and to get them the academic interventions they need, a report says.

“Contrary to stereotypes that cast Asian-Americans as model students of academic achievement, many Asian-American students are struggling, failing, and dropping out of schools that ignore their needs,” says the report, released last week by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.