Across the United States, political leaders, business executives, and educators have grown increasingly curious about China, and how the Asian nation’s economic growth and modernization is tied to schools. In this series, Education Week examines education in China today, the classroom strategies at work in schools, and the strengths and weakness Chinese educators and others see in their education system. Join the related discussion, “American Creativity vs. Chinese Skills.”
School Choice & Charters
Chinese Migrants Rely on Private Institutions to Educate Children
Public schools in cities often charge higher fees to students from rural areas.
School Choice & Charters
Free Market Spurs Diverse Offerings of Private Schools
From middle-class urbanites to migrant workers, an increasingly diverse cross section of Chinese families is turning to private schools.
Teaching Profession
Teaching Viewed as Stable and Respectable Profession
Teaching is one of the most stable and respected careers in China, but changes to the society and the education system are putting new pressures on teachers.
Science
Asian Equation
Chinese leaders are redesigning the way students are taught math and science so the younger generation will be prepared to help a changing society move forward.
Federal
Cultural Exchange Experience Informs Chinese Principal’s View of Education
East meets West every day in the principal’s office at Jindao Middle School.
Federal
Favorite Son Pioneered Chinese Study-Abroad Programs
Every time a teenager in the United States receives permission to study abroad in China, that fortunate Western soul would be advised to pay proper tribute to one of this city’s native sons—a cross-cultural pioneer named Yung Wing
Federal
At Elite School in China, Day Begins with Eye Exercises, Jumping Jacks
Hundreds of teenagers stood quietly in the massive school courtyard on a chilly spring morning, in perfectly straight rows, evenly spaced.
Mathematics
Chinese Hosts Turn Tables on Ed Week Reporter
I’d spent the all day in the offices of China’s top curriculum agency, asking some of the nation’s leading school mathematics and science experts about their work. Now, it was their turn.
