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There is often a direct connection between culture and the sociopolitical context of schooling. In general South Asian students are remarkably successful in U.S. Schools. Please explain to me why this is or is not true.

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Discussion of the reasons why asian students experience such remarlkable success in US schools, including Web site refererence site URLs for additional reading and research on this topic.

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The following Web sites and documents available on the web may prove helpful.

www.ericdigests.org/2002-4/asian.html

deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/63048/1/297_ftp.pdf

www.wmich.edu/gearup/pdf/MOTIVATIONAL_THEORY.pdf

diverseeducation.com/article/7071/1.php

www.informaworld.com/index/T5572206760Q6M53.pdf

escholarship.org/uc/item/98h4n45j

www.jstor.org/stable/40364605

http://www.math.umt.edu/tmme/vol6no1and2/TMME_vol6nos1and2_article18_pp.239_256.pdf

www.modelminority.com/modules.php?name=News

jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/article/viewPDFInterstitial/.../66

www.springerlink.com/index/w577380v66l1rl53.pdf

www.history.ubc.ca/documents/faculty/yu/Yu_Asian_Americans.pdf

ethnomus.ucr.edu/capa/CAPA98.html

www.s2r.biz/s2rpapers/papers-The_Real.pdf

www.users.muohio.edu/shermalw/.../Group2_Investigation_Paper.doc

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