INDOCHINESE REFUGEE FAMILIES and ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Pre-reading:
1. Read the eye-catching features (title, sentences under the title, pictures and captions, graphs, etc.) and paragraph 1.
What issue will the text discuss?
Write in your own words in English.
The children of Indochinese refugees excel in the American school system. An analysis of the factors underlying this achievement suggests that the U.S. educational crisis is more social than academic

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CLOSE READING
section 1 (paragraphs 1-6):
2. ​Why is it surprising that the Indochinese refugee children excelled in
school?
It is surprising that Chinese refugee children excel, because they wasted years of formal schooling during their stay in resettlement camps and suffered from turmoil and trauma while fleeing Southeast Asia, and because of their lack of knowledge of the English language, meaning that despite these difficulties the children quickly adapted to their schools. And they began to excel