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...spoke about the differences between the experiences of the first wave and that of the second generation. “Coming here to do a job and being accepted are two different things,” Anand said. “Our generation’s experience, your parent??s generation, is very different than your generation’s experience. The second layer builds on the first layer.” But Reddi reminded the audience that the wave of immigration in the 1970s was not the first to hit America. According to Reddi, in the 1910s...
...students, what we were trying to have them learn, than how we were evaluating them.” The median grade point average for students is about 3.4, a number that has not changed much over the past eight years, Gross said in response to a parent??s question about grade inflation. Despite the attention given to grading in the past, Gross said that he did not want “to use grades in any way to pit [students] against each other.” “My feeling is that grades are most useful...
Even so, every proud parent??s insistence that his or her offspring couldn’t possibly be ordinary represents a bizarrely intransigent response to reality. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but just about half of the children in this country are below average. The world is a rough place. Some of us are weak, and some of us are strong; some of us are smart, and some of us are dumb; some of us really are destined to make a profound impact on the world, and some of us just aren?...
...While the current college application certainly requires a lot of work on the parent??s part, it’s usually the pressure involved at the student’s end that has become a lightning rod for criticism...
...peer pressure, personal desires, and the judging eyes of a global religion on everything from alcohol to sex to appropriate clothing is a constant and unresolved internal “jihad.”Religion is a mutable concept in the Gaber household. Having one Muslim and one Christian parent??each from very religious but significantly different backgrounds—meant that the issue was polarizing and thus, rarely forced. Religion was a guidebook for living morally but never a checklist for acting “correctly.” While a headscarf was therefore never...