Realities of Education Reform in China  

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Jiang, Xueqin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Far Eastern Economic Review vol. 172 no. 10 (Dec. 2009), page 50.
Topik: China; Education Reform; Students

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Unaware of the time of day, a teenager sits in a dimly lit room, focused on a mundane repetitive task that robs him of his hunger and energy. In America, this teenager most likely is playing video games, and his parents may disapprove. In China, he probably is studying for the national college entrance examination, or gaokao, and his parents will approve. To compare cramming for a test to playing video games may sound absurd, because most people assume that teenagers enjoy games but hate studying. That's not necessarily true, as I discovered when I accepted a job to help Shenzhen Middle School students apply to American universities in 2008. The real problem with China's education culture is that students are too obsessed with cramming for their own good. I first met Principal Wang Zheng in 1998 in Beijing at Peking University High School when he was a young vice principal and I was spending a semester away from Yale to work as an English teacher. We both believed in bringing freedom of choice, diversity and individuality to China's public schools. But then our paths parted for a time, as I went on to pursue journalism and Wang Zheng went to Shenzhen to pursue his dream.

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