Everything You Always Wanted To Know About China's Education System.
Posted by Dan on September 15, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Teachingtips.com did an article entitled, "25 Surprising Facts About China’s Education System." (h/t to China Economics Blog) And though I am not prepared to say all 25 will surprise you, certainly most of them are at least pretty interesting. On top of that, each fact has a link to its source, which usually provides more interesting/surprising information.
http://www.chinalawblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-t.cgi/3285
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About China's Education System.:
Comments
Dan, don't believe everything you read about China's education system. In particular, compare the unqualified point #3 on the list. Compare it with data taken from pgs 244-245 of "Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics" by Yasheng Huang. If you haven't read his book, you need to. You need to tell all your clients to read the book to get the true story.
Posted by: Jared | September 18, 2009 12:51 AM
My family repatriated to the U.S. when my oldest daughter was just short of 7. She had spent a little more than a year in Chinese schools.
It was more than a year before the curriculum caught up to the work her class was doing in China.
Posted by: Ted Cruise | September 18, 2009 11:17 AM
@ Jared
For those of us who haven't read the book (or even heard of it), what is the literacy rate?
Posted by: outcast | September 20, 2009 4:19 AM
While there is little question that urban schools teach more than the typical American school, I agree with Jared. Take statistics supplied by the Chinese government with a grain of salt. Also, rural primary education is often a mess.
Posted by: hanmeng | September 20, 2009 8:34 AM