Chinese Education

The Bronx Meets Beijing

Jessica Cohen | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Beijing, Bronx, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Chinese Education, Chinese Students, China, Steve Mariotti, Bronx Aerospace High School, Education News
Jessica Cohen

It was in that moment of "speaking" with this Chinese teacher that I realized why I was brought to China...

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Chinese Teachers On An American Mission

Los Angeles Times | Ricardo Lopez, Los Angeles Times | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Learn Chinese, Mandarin, Foreign Language Education, Chinese Teachers, Chinese, Teachers, Chinese Foreign Language, Chinese Education, Teaching Chinese, Education News

The large ballroom in UCLA's Covel Commons resembled a bustling day-care center one recent day, as laughter rang out across the room. A boisterous ...

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WATCH: This Black California Teen's Unusual Special Talent

AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Cross Culture Education, California, Chinese Culture, Chinese Opera, California Schools, California Arts Education, Arts Education, Chinese Education, Cultural Education, Teenagers, Video, Education News

OAKLAND, Calif. — Tyler Thompson is an unlikely star in the world of Chinese opera. The 15-year-old from Oakland has captivated audiences in th...

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China No Longer Test-Obsessed; Do We Follow Suit To Compete?

GOOD | Liz Dwyer | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Minxuan Zhang, Testing Students, Ministry of Education, China Education, Center for International Education Studies, Standardized Testing, Pisa, Chinese Education, China, Education News

At a time when international test results--like last year's PISA data--seem to indicate that American students are falling behind their Chinese counte...

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Is China's Education System Training Innovators Or Robots?

C. M. Rubin | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Minxuan Zhang, Global Education, C. M. Rubin, PISA Test, Shanghai Schools, Chinese Education, George E. Morrison, Education Reform, Tiger Moms, Children, Education News
C. M. Rubin

Educational excellence is about knowledge and skill, but it is also about the socialization of the individual, about cultivating students to have active learning interests for the rest of their lives.

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Amy Chua: Why Is American Parenting So Close-Minded?

usatoday.com | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Amy Chua, Education, American Education System, Battle Hymns of the Tiger Mother, Tiger Mother, Chinese Education, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance and Why They Fall, Books News

The secret to America's global success has always been its ability to attract the best human capital from around the world....

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More U.S. Students Learning Chinese As School Language Programs Expand

Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Chinese Language, Trilingual Education, Bilingual Education, Chinese Lessons, Chinese Education, Broadway Elementary, Education News

By Alex Dobuzinskis In Mandarin immersion teacher Kennis Wong's kindergarten class, her young pupils are making paper masks glued to sticks that the...

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China's Ambivalent Tiger Moms: When in Rome...

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Single Child Policy, Tang, Chinese Fathers, Ego, Little Emperors, EQ and IQ, Chinese Education, Chinese Mothers, Sugar Coated Pills, Wyeth, Chinese Hierarchy, Gao Kao, Confucian Child Rearing Practices, Pizza Hut, Individualism, Chinese Ambition, McDonald's, Chinese Universities, Amy Chua, Chinese College Entrance Exam, Western Child Rearing Practices, Kfc, Infant Nutrition, Tiger Moms, Danone, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Smarties, Dumex, World News
Tom Doctoroff

In the People's Republic, contemporary mothers, flooded with information that promote a more liberal model of modern parenting, are conflicted.

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Can the Philanthropic Billionaire and the President of the AFT find common ground?

Mike Klonsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: School Reform, Bill Gates, Randi Weingarten, Chinese Education, Arne Duncan, American Federation of Teachers, Pisa, School Reforms, Chester Finn, Education News
Mike Klonsky

There's nothing wrong with trying to raise the bar on teacher quality. But if Gates' reform strategy is to make all teachers equal in skill, he's barking up the wrong tree.

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Are the Beijing Olympic Games Being Used as a Propaganda Campaign to Prop up the Communist Party?

Susan Brownell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bejing Olympics, China, Communism, Olympics, Chinese Government, Chinese Education, China Olympics Education, Politics News
Susan Brownell

I think it is more accurate to conclude that the Olympic Games have been de-politicized in China's Olympic education efforts -- part of a backlash against the politicized national curriculum.

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