Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--and How You Can Too by Soo Kim Abboud, Jane Kim, Jane Y. Kim
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- Pub. Date: November 2005
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- Pub. Date: November 2005
- Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
- Format: Paperback, 224pp
- ISBN-13: 9780425205617
- ISBN: 0425205614
Synopsis
Asians and Asian-Americans make up 4% of the U.S. population...and 20% of the Ivy League. Now find out how they do it.
The numbers speak for themselves: 18% of Harvard's population; 25% of Columbia's; 42% of Berkeley's; 24% of Stanford's; 25% of Cornell's...
What are Asian parents doing to start their kids on the road to academic excellence at an early age? What can all parents do to help their children ace tests, strive to achieve, and reach educational goals? In this book, two sisters-a doctor and a lawyer whose parents came from South Korea to the U.S. with two hundred dollars in their pockets-reveal the practices that lead Asian-Americans to academic, professional, and personal success.
The authors contend that Asian-Americans are no more intelligent than any other race or ethnic group. They say, "the reason Asian students out-perform their peers in the classroom has nothing to do with how they
Biography
Dr. Soo Kim Abboud is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and is active in the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Otolaryngology, and the Association of Women's Surgeons.
Jane Kim, Esq., works as an Immigration Specialist of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and has received numerous writing awards and has published essays dealing with cultural issues in literary magazines including America's Intercultural Magazine.
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This is an excellent book and I would recommend it to other people that they would read it too.by White100
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September 14, 2009: I think that the book was very excellent and very clear to understand but number one they should of never ever wrote down that oriental asian americans or asians period are no more intelligent than any race or ethnic group of people because they are way much more intelligent than any other race or ethnic group of people in the whole entire world.Number two they should of never ever wrote down that people hestitate to stereotype all oriental asians as a whole that they are doing something right by denying because yes all oriental asians 100% all of the time are doing something right.Number three Jane Kim should of also been a straight A student too since her her sister was also one and their parents should of been more stricter on Jane Kim with grades in school and college since it is all of the oriental asian race of people's'culture to get straight A's and straight A's all through school and college all through their lives,to pursue higher education and to have an extremely very high rate of higher education with perfect 4.0 gpa's and higher.Number four they should of never ever wrote down where asian parents go wrong because yes all asian parents have all of the answers to raising their children up to getting excellent grades in school.Number five the rest of the oriental asians in the book should of had straight A's all through school and college without messing up too.Number six Soo Kim Abboud should of gotten straight A's all through school and college too just like the rest of the oriental asians.Number seven they should of told the percentage rate that oriental asians pursue higher education both males and females all over the world which is the whole 100% of them.Number eight they should of never ever wrote down "who are we to write this book,and why are we writing it"because they can write it,educational books like that,and other books similar to that whenever they want to and feel like it.Number nine the corresponding rate for all adults in the age group for asian pacific islanders should of been way much more higher and it should of been 100%.Number 10 they should of never ever wrote down that oriental asian students are no more intellectually gifted than non-asian students because they are way much more intellectually gifted and smarter than non-asian students.
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Finally...by Anonymous
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April 09, 2006: Finally someone has written a book to explain it all. Very interesting for teachers, students, and parents.
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