Educational Aspirations of Asian American Students: Examining Heterogeneity Among Ethnic Subgroups

• In Event: Roundtable Session 23
  In Roundtable Session: Asian Communities and U.S. Education

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine Asian American students’ educational aspirations. Specifically, this study focuses on exploring heterogeneity among Asian American ethnic subgroups. By analyzing 989 Asian American survey responses from the HSLS:09 data, this study find consistent discrepancies in Asian American students’ educational aspirations by their ethnic subgroups even after controlling other predictors. The findings from this proposed study may help researchers and educational administrators to focus more attention on and design better interventions for Asian American students, who have been overlooked in American education because of the model minority myth.

Author

• Kye-Hyoung Lee, The University of Texas at Austin