Family Life Special Feature: Tiger Parenting & Educational Success - 2/03/25

Family Life Special Feature: Tiger Parenting & Educational Success - 2/03/25

Perhaps you've heard of "helicopter parenting" or "snowplow parents". Among some cultures, Tiger Parents are a current trend.

Neetu Arnold is a Pennsylvania-based education policy analyst with the Manhattan Institute. In this extended Family Life newsmaker interview, she talks about how she would clarify how Vivek Ramaswamey described America's need for more Tiger Moms. 

Arnold wrote about her recommendations in a recent USA Today article.

She also talks about:

• how schools can better support their students by giving more attention and acolades for academic achievement which would parallel the celebration of students' successes in sports.
• why parents and schools need to honor each student's unique talents and aptitudes, whatever their academic interests are
• the parallel problems of "teaching to the test" and with passing students along from one level to the next, without mastering the skills needed at each stage of their journeys toward graduation

Neetu Arnold's research and reflections on other educational issues can be found in her archives from the Young Voices cooperative and the Manhattan Institute website. She provides print and broadcast commentary regionally and nationally.

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