Sau - Fong Sui

Research Areas:
Asian American educational achievement, Chinese immigrant families, home-school partnership. For five years in the 1990s Dr. Siu was a Principal Investigator in the Center on Families, Communities, Schools, and Children’s Learning, a research consortium funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Selected Publications
• Hidalgo, N., Siu, S.-F., & Epstein, J. (2003). Research on families, schools, and communities: A multicultural perspective. In J.A. Banks & C.A.M. Banks (Eds.), Handbook for research on multicultural education (2nd ed.; pp. 631-655). San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.
• Siu, S.-F. (2002). Toward building home-school partnerships: The case of Chinese American families and public schools. In E.H. Tamura, V. Chattergy, & R. Endo (Eds.), Asian and Pacific American education: Social, cultural, and historical contexts (pp. 59-84). South El Monte, CA: Pacific Asia Press.
• Siu, S.-F. (2001) An ethnographic study of Chinese American family involvement in young children's education. In C.C. Park, A.L.Goodwin, & S.J. Lee (Eds.), Research on theeducation of Asian and Pacific Americans (pp. 105-128). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
• Siu, S.-F. (2000). Reflections on traditional and contemporary values and assumptions about home-school partnerships. Policy Watch, 6, 6-10. (Article written in Chinese. The Journal is published by the Centre for Social Policy Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.)
• Siu, S.-F. (1996). Questions and answers: What research says about Chinese American children. Baltimore : Center on Families, Communities, Schools, and Children’s Learning.
• Siu, S.-F. (1996). Asian American students at risk: A literature review. Baltimore, MD: Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk, Johns Hopkins University and Howard University.
• Siu, S.-F. (1994). Taking no chances: Profile of a Chinese‑American family's support for school success. Equity and Choice, 10 (2), 23‑32.
• Siu, S-F. (1992). Toward an understanding of Chinese‑American educational achievement. Boston: Center on Families, Communities, Schools and Children's Learning.