Desai showed emphasis on the pressure that students from India face and how expectations rise every year. ... Education is dealing with human beings whose minds continuously react to personal needs, societal expectations, material circumstances, and ever changing political economic realities". ... (Pew Research center) Compared to America, these three highly populated countries place nearly 4 times more pressure on students have higher expectations 6 times more than American parents. ... "(Desai 1417) This shows how a normal conversation between a parent and a child in India is mostl...

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All eight students stated that their parents giving them high expectations and monitoring their work were important factors to their accomplishments. ... The eight participants also described that they would be disciplined for not performing to their parent's expectations (Bryan 3). ... They stated that by being involved, they were exposed to many activities such as chess, and had the opportunity to listen to great speakers. ...

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These students are under great pressure by their families, school, friends, and jobs. ... If the students don't reach their parents" expectations, they would probably get punished or grounded. ... In high school, students have a great deal of pressure from their parents to take as many high academic classes as possible such as, Advance Placement and Honor courses, to accomplish requirements from the universities and to be accepted to college. ...

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Schools should be held accountable to "and raise expectations and standards for "all students, and the resultant improvement would benefit everyone. ... These initiatives are aimed at improvement through high standards, great expectations, and accountability, yet real improvement has not been borne out in the literature. ...

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"Work hard. You will need excellent grades to enter a good college." These were words that I lived by throughout my youth. They told of the expectations my family has set for me. Two of my cousins had obtained honor degrees from Cambridge University and my parents expect that I follow the same track...

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Aronowitz also makes a great case when he states "If teachers were allowed to acknowledge student skepticism, incorporated kids' knowledge into the curriculum by making what they know the object of rigorous study, especially popular music and television, they might be treated with greater respect.... Aronowitz states "Americans have great expectations of their schools. ...

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HOME SCHOOL CONNECTIONS IN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY For several decades now educators have recognised with great significance the integral role that parents play in their child's foundational language learning (Cairney & Munsie, 1992, p.1). ... The solution is not to seek to conform families to school expectations of what it is to be literate (Cairney, 2000, p.98). ...

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In the 1960s a great amount of black students in selective colleges became a political issue Black college applicants scored below whites on all sort of tests. ... The annual city-by-city analysis, conducted by the Council of the Great City Schools and released here last month, found that some districts also are narrowing the achievement gap between white students and their African-American and Hispanic peers on state tests. ...

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Goldstein also makes a point that Chua fails to grasp, which is, "if you have a particular talent and the will to succeed, you don't really need a great education"(Goldstein 273). ... They'll grow up skilled and compliant but without the audacity to be great. ...

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