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Tiger Mom Amy Chua’s got a plan to overhaul U.S. education
- 05-13-2011
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By Julianne Hing/Color Lines
Amy Chua, Yale law professor, Tiger Mom, media darling, a Time Magazine Top 100 Most Influential Person of 2011, and now… education reformer? That’s right. Chua wrote an op-ed for USA Today this week with her ideas to improve American education, and it sounds a whole lot like asking other parents to model themselves after her. In Chua’s view, if U.S. parents just stepped it up at home and were more strict about instilling a strong work ethic in their kids at a young age, the country’s education woes would be eliminated. Is Michelle Rhee looking for a sidekick? Chua writes: (more...)
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