Asian students study twice as many hours,
Is there a 'tiger mother' effect?
This graph shows the weekly hours spent on studying and homework by full-time high school students, averaged over the entire year.: Courtesy Valerie Ramey
It's officially the "Year of the Rabbit" on the Chinese calendar. But 2011 might be better known as the "Year of the Tiger Mother."
In early January, Yale law professor Amy Chua published a critique of coddling Western-style parenting in The Wall Street Journal, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior." The essay, summarizing her book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" – in which she details, among other things, how she