Everett S. Lee and Xue-lan Rong, in The Elementary School Journal (May 1988), Univ. of Chicago Press, PO.Box 37005, Chicago, Dl. 60637.
The achievements of Asian-Americans, in school and at work, are well publicized. The National Center for Education Statistics, for example, re- ports that Asian-American students tend to earn more A's and B's and fewer D's and F's than any other ethnic group.
But Asians have been crossing the Pacific for a long time. The Chinese began arriving during the 1850s;...