{"id":71506,"date":"2012-06-18T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T06:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16925"},"modified":"2012-06-18T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T06:38:04","slug":"the-invisible-academic-asian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/18\/the-invisible-academic-asian\/","title":{"rendered":"The invisible academic Asian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Chris Hayes&#8217; piece in <i>The Nation<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/print\/article\/168265\/why-elites-fail\">Why Elites Fail<\/a>, there is a particular lacunae which I noted: <b>he does not make it clear to a non-New York audience which is well known to any New York based reader: <i>elite public schools in the city are dominated by Asians<\/i>.<\/b> I pointed this out to both Hayes and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.matthew_yglesias.html\">Matt Yglesias<\/a> on Twitter. Hayes makes much of the advantages accrued to the wealthy via test prep, but neglects to mention the racialized cast of this: test prep and competition for these public school slots is <b>driven by the children of Asian immigrants.<\/b> Consider, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylimits.org\/news\/articles\/3943\/test-fuels-anxiety-and-an-industry\">Test Fuels Anxiety\u2014And An Industry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The challenging test, known as the \u201cSci-Hi\u201d exam for short, consists of a math and verbal sections. More than 27,000 kids took the test last fall. Only about one in five students wins admission to the specialized high schools. <b>Asians and South Asians were 57 percent of the students who learned in February that they&#8217;ve been admitted to one of the eight competitive specialized high schools.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s Department of Education offers free prep classes for economically disadvantaged students. <b>But many immigrant families pay for private test prep classes despite having incomes that &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/B8D0ToTgGN4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Chris Hayes&#8217; piece in The Nation, Why Elites Fail, there is a particular lacunae which I noted: he does not make it clear to a non-New York audience which is well known to any New York based reader: elite public schools in the city are dominat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71547,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71506\/revisions\/71547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}