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Duh: Asians get great grades but aren’t that smart

December 11, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

But you knew that — they can all play the violin perfectly, but none of them are composers…

As my primary second job, I teach enrichment at a private educational company (aka, an Asian cram school), which over seven years adds up to a lot of Asian high school students.

Maybe 10% of them can reliably read a complex text and offer an interesting or informed analysis without referring to Wikipedia and repeating verbatim what they read there…

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