“Much of the intense reaction to my book has been based on a misunderstanding,” Amy Chua, author of the controversial book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” told a full house in Graham Chapel. “I never approved that headline, and I never saw it until I opened up the Sunday headline and saw it for the first time. And, in fact, I don’t agree with [it].

Amid rampant conjecture about the failings of the American education system, and following the publication of Chinese testing results that thoroughly kicked our collective American rear ends, Yale professor Amy Chua published a controversial article about what is now termed “extreme parenting.”