http://www.metafilter.com/tags/latinoamerican Posts tagged with 'latinoamerican' at MetaFilter. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:58:01 -0800 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:58:01 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73533/Carlos%2DIs%2Dan%2DAsian%2Dat%2DHeart <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/columnone/la-me-lincoln16-2008jul16,0,7519572,full.story">Why do Asian-American students achieve higher grades than Latino-American students?</a> Despite the fact that the students come from the same <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socioeconomics">socioeconomic</a> background (median annual household incomes below $50,000 in working-class Los Angeles neighborhoods), Asian-American students disproportionately get better grades, attend AP courses, and go to college than their Latino-American counterparts. <a href="http://search.lausd.k12.ca.us/cgi-bin/fccgi.exe?w3exec=school.profile.content&which=8729">Students </a>at <a href="http://www.lincolnhs.org/mambo/">Lincoln</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_High_School_(Los_Angeles)">High School</a> sit down for a frank discussion of why that is. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73533 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:58:01 -0800 asian asianamerican california education hispanic hispanicamerican latino latinoamerican losangeles modelminority socioeconomic jabberjaw