Indian American Anamika Veeramani (14 years) has won the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee crown to retain the honor for the ‘desis’ for the third year in a row. She defeated another Indian American, Shantanu Srivatsa of West Fargo, North Dakota in the nationally televised final round on Friday night to become the bee’s 83rd champion. Her win earns a $30,000 cash prize and engraved trophy from the event’s sponsor, The E.W. Scripps Co., along with a $2,500 U.S. savings bond and a complete reference library from Merriam-Webster, a $5,000 scholarship from the Sigma Phi Epsilon Educational Foundation and a package from Encyclopedia Britannica totaling $3,499.
Year after year white/black american kids are falling behind their asian counterparts why?