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Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Achievement: An Ecological Perspective
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Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Achievement: An Ecological Perspective

Laurence Steinberg, Sanford Dornbusch and B Brown
The American psychologist, Vol.47(6), pp.723-729
01/06/1992
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.47.6.723
PMID: 1616171

Abstract

Academic achievement Asian Americans Black people Children & youth Hispanic Americans Social research
Three widely held explanations for the superior school performance of Asian-American adolescents and the inferior performance of African- and Hispanic-American adolescents are challenged in a study. The absence or presence of peer support for all three groups was found to have a different effect.

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