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【正文】 Taking Lessons from Another Culture Taking Lessons from Another Culture ?Text Learning ?Afterreading exercises 1 For children of Asian descent growing up in and around New York City, cram schools are a part of life. 2 Starting in the third grade and continuing through high school, hundreds of students drag themselves to these private tutoring classes, long a tradition in the Far East, day after day, after school, on weekends and over the summer. 3 Now, growing numbers of nonAsian parents are enrolling their children in the schools, hoping to achieve the same educational successes associated with Asian students. Taking Lessons from Another Culture T 4 Anna Connelly, who is white and lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, started her 13yearold son Matthew in Elite Academy, a Korean cram school in Flushing, last month. Asian students, she said, are great role models. 5 The enrollment shift is surprising, cram school officials say, because the schools run by Asian immigrants have done nothing to go after the mainstream market, and are still advertising only in Chinese and Koreanlanguage newspapers. T Taking Lessons from Another Culture 6 And, at least for now, the schools are not obviously changing their ways to attract nonAsian students. At Elite, the receptionist answers the phone in Korean. An article on the bulletin board advertising a workshop on writing college essays is written in Korean. As parents chat away in the lobby, waiting to pick up their children, mostly Korean is heard. 7 But rather than feeling out of place, many nonAsian parents see this as one of the schools primary draws. You go to the library, those are the kids that are there, said one parent. They’re the ones interested in learning. T Taking Lessons from Another Culture 8 Classes for the younger pupils are the ones being increasingly diverse, said Amy Yoo, Elites director. But the high school classes remain mostly students from Asian families, she said, possibly because of the extra devotion required, given teenagers already busy schedules. 9 On a recent Saturday morning, Elite was in full swing. In one room, a group of sixth graders were struggling with a difficult short story. Down the hall, Matthew Connelly and the rest of his
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