A ten-year study conducted by a professor at University of British Columbia finds Mandarin-speaking girls are four times more likely than other Asian students to get good grades in high school. Education Prof. Lee Gunderson at UBC has been examining trends among immigrant students in Vancouver public schools for more than a decade. Gunderson said his latest study examined the stereotype that Asian students are all high-performers by comparing Grade 12 marks of groups that speak Mandarin, Cantonese and other Asian languages.
Source: Vancouver Sun
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