[USA] After-School Institutions in Chinese and Korean Immigrant Communities: A Model for Others? / Migration Information Source, May 2007
http://www.migrationinformation.org/Feature/display.cfm?id=598
Min Zhou and Susan S. Kim
"The extraordinary educational achievement of the children of Asian immigrants has attracted a great deal of media and scholarly attention. The 2000 US census shows that about one-third of Asian Americans are US born and that 50 percent of US-born Asian Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 have at least a bachelor's degree - a rate more than 20 percent higher than non-Hispanic whites. What is more striking is that young Asian Americans - not only the children of foreign-born physicians, scientists, and engineers, but also those of uneducated, low-skilled, and poor immigrants and refugees - have repeatedly shown up as high school valedictorians and academic decathlon winners, and have enrolled in prestigious colleges and universities in disproportionately large numbers."