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...telling measure of parental attention is homework. A 1984 study of San Francisco-area schools by Stanford Sociologist Sanford Dornbusch found that Asian-American students put in an average of eleven hours a week, compared with seven hours by other students. Westinghouse Prizewinner John Kuo recalls that in Taiwan he was accustomed to studying two or three hours a night. "Here we had half an hour at the most." To make up the difference, John and his two brothers were often given extra assignments at home. "Asian parents spend much more time with their children than American parents...
...eleven years as Washington bureau chief of the Times, Reston proved a shrewd man at spotting talent. He also instituted a practice, like a Supreme Court Justice's, of selecting young interns to "clerk" for a year; out of this group came the present bureau chief, Craig Whitney, as well as Times correspondents at the White House, the State Department and on Capitol Hill. In Reston they found a hard-working, long-hours boss, congenial colleague and fierce defender of his troops...
Lewis is no easier on himself. Rising before dawn in his Manhattan brownstone house, he puts in eleven-hour workdays. He has a reputation for being an intense and demanding perfectionist who hates to lose, even in a tennis match. Says TLC Counsel Charles Clarkson: "Some people may say that he is difficult, but he focuses on what has to be done...
Kemya, a pint-size sprite no more than 5 ft. tall, dropped out of school because she didn't see the point of it. "I don't see a connection between being in school and life after school." Kemy, as her friends call her, was smoking cigarettes at eleven and marijuana at twelve. She lost her virginity early. She says she doesn't use birth control and doesn't worry about getting pregnant. The youngest, Myndell, already has a taste for street life. He likes to dress sharp and pressed his mother until she bought him a $200 bomber jacket...
...integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System," you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of You. If your readers have been following Mr. Carswell's advice for the last eleven years, then your readers have been going down the tubes. It is time to disillusion...