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Ngo, Bic; Lee, Stacey J. – Review of Educational Research, 2007
Similar to other Asian American students, Southeast Asian American students are often stereotyped by the popular press as hardworking and high-achieving model minorities. On the other hand, Southeast Asian American youth are also depicted as low-achieving high school dropouts involved in gangs. The realities of academic performance and persistence…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Academic Achievement, Educational Experience, Asian American Students
West, Cheryl D. – 2000
This qualitative study investigated individual, contextual, and cultural factors that promote trauma-related resilience and positive growth among Cambodian survivors of the Pol Pot regime who reside in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Lowell, Massachusetts. A thriving paradigm framed semi-structured interviews that were conducted with 21 Cambodians in…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Attitude Measures, Cambodians, Coping