THE TROUBLE THRESHOLD<\/strong>: \u201cYet, whites are not the top performing group. As the Thernstroms point out, the gap between white and Asian-American student performance is actually wider than the gap between blacks and whites, with Hispanics performing about as poorly as blacks.<\/p>\n \u201cAmong the most intriguing possible reasons for this disparity is an intriguing group difference in the way students measure their family\u2019s \u2018trouble threshold,\u2019 according to one study that the Thernstroms cite. The \u2018trouble threshold\u2019 is the lowest grade that students think they can receive before their parents go volcanic with anger and start clamping down on TV time, etc. In the survey by Laurence Steinberg, a Temple University social scientist, published in his 1996 book, Beyond the Classroom<\/em>, most of the black and Hispanic students surveyed said they could avoid trouble at home as long as their grades stayed above C-minus.<\/p>\n \u201cMost of the whites, by contrast, said their parents would give them a hard time if their children came home with anything less than a B-minus.<\/p>\n \u201cBy contrast, most of the Asian students, whether immigrant or native-born, said that their parents would be upset if they brought home anything less than an A-minus.\u201d<\/p>\n Clarence Page<\/a>, via Eugene Volokh<\/a> (who notes that this item is \u201crated S, for \u2018Indirectly Quotes Studies That the Author Hasn\u2019t Personally Read'\u201d).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE TROUBLE THRESHOLD: \u201cYet, whites are not the top performing group. As the Thernstroms point out, the gap between white and Asian-American student performance is actually wider than the gap between blacks and whites, with Hispanics performing about as poorly as blacks. \u201cAmong the most intriguing possible reasons for this disparity is an intriguing group […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n