A volume in Research on the Education of Asian Pacific Americans Series Editors Clara C. Park, California State University, Northridge, Russell Endo, University of Colorado, and Xue Lan Rong, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Sponsored by SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education) This research anthology is the fifth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group - Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG - REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and examines the patterns of Asian parents' involvement in the education of their children, as well as the direct and indirect effects on children's academic achievement; Asian American children's literacy development and learning strategies; Asian American teachers' motivation to enter teaching profession, and strategies to recruit and retain them; the ""model minority stereotype"" of Asian American students and their socio-emotional development; campus climate and perceived racism toward Asian American college students, etc. This series blends the work of well established Asian American scholars with the voices of emerging researchers and examines in close detail important issues in Asian American education, parental involvement, and teacher recruitment. Scholars and educational practitioners will find this book to be an invaluable and enlightening resource.

This work looks at Asian American identities, families and schooling. It covers topics such as: growing up Asian in America, Asian Indian families in the United States, the formation of a political identity in Korean students and more.

As the first volume in the series sponsored by SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American Educational Research Association and California Association for Asian and Pacific American Education, this book sheds important light on the educational issues and needs of Asian and Pacific American students in k- college. Each chapter illuminates the unique educational issues of Asian and Pacific Americans and provides crucial information necessary to understand how Asian and Pacific American students learn, how educational practitioners should work with Asian and Pacific students, and the outcomes we can expect from various programs in Asian and Pacific American education. This body of knowledge can inform researchers and practitioners, as well as policy makers of effective instruction for Asian and Pacific American students at all levels. The series intend to be a national voice for the education of Asian and Pacific Americans, and provide an integral view of new knowledge in the field of Asian and Pacific American education from scholarly and educational practitioners' perspectives.

This research anthology is the fourth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIGREAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and explains the lived experiences of Asian and Americans as they acculturate to American schools, develop literacy, and claim their place in U.S. society, and blends the work of well established Asian American scholars with the voices of emerging researchers and examines in close detail important issues in Asian American education and socialization. Scholars and educational practitioners will find this book to be an invaluable and enlightening resource.

A volume in Research on the Education of Asian Pacific Americans Series Editors Clara C. Park, California State University, Northridge, Russell Endo, University of Colorado, and Xue Lan Rong, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Sponsored by SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education) This research anthology is the fifth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group - Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIG - REAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and examines the patterns of Asian parents' involvement in the education of their children, as well as the direct and indirect effects on children's academic achievement; Asian American children's literacy development and learning strategies; Asian American teachers' motivation to enter teaching profession, and strategies to recruit and retain them; the ""model minority stereotype"" of Asian American students and their socio-emotional development; campus climate and perceived racism toward Asian American college students, etc. This series blends the work of well established Asian American scholars with the voices of emerging researchers and examines in close detail important issues in Asian American education, parental involvement, and teacher recruitment. Scholars and educational practitioners will find this book to be an invaluable and enlightening resource.

This research anthology is the fourth volume in a series sponsored by the Special Interest Group Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans (SIGREAPA) of the American Educational Research Association and National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education. This series explores and explains the lived experiences of Asian and Americans as they acculturate to American schools, develop literacy, and claim their place in U.S. society, and blends the work of well established Asian American scholars with the voices of emerging researchers and examines in close detail important issues in Asian American education and socialization. Scholars and educational practitioners will find this book to be an invaluable and enlightening resource.

As the first volume in the series sponsored by SIG-Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans of the American Educational Research Association and California Association for Asian and Pacific American Education, this book sheds important light on the educational issues and needs of Asian and Pacific American students in k- college. Each chapter illuminates the unique educational issues of Asian and Pacific Americans and provides crucial information necessary to understand how Asian and Pacific American students learn, how educational practitioners should work with Asian and Pacific students, and the outcomes we can expect from various programs in Asian and Pacific American education. This body of knowledge can inform researchers and practitioners, as well as policy makers of effective instruction for Asian and Pacific American students at all levels. The series intend to be a national voice for the education of Asian and Pacific Americans, and provide an integral view of new knowledge in the field of Asian and Pacific American education from scholarly and educational practitioners' perspectives.

This work looks at Asian American identities, families and schooling. It covers topics such as: growing up Asian in America, Asian Indian families in the United States, the formation of a political identity in Korean students and more.