Parents as tigers and wimps: Cycles in child rearing and schooling
By Valerie Strauss
This was written by Larry Cuban, a former high school social studies teacher (14 years, including seven at Cardozo and Roosevelt high schools in the District), district superintendent (seven years in Arlington, Virginia) and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, where he has taught for 20 years. His latest book is "As Good As It Gets: What School Reform Brought to Austin."
The post, which appeared on his blog, refers to the book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother." Author Amy Chua writes about how she raised her children with traditional Chinese values that she extended to measures that included rejecting her kids’ homemade birthday cards for their lousy
