BBC: Chinese Students Enrolling in Private Schools to Avoid Testing Pressures

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1. Lloyd Lofthouse says:

   February 27, 2016 at 1:08 pm

   Another reason Chinese parents send their children to private schools and even public or private schools in the United States—where several hundred thousand go to school each year in the U.S. and other Western countries—is because those high stakes tests that rank students in China also decide who continues past 9th grade and even who gets into college out of 12th grade and what public high school or college the students will attend. If a child is not a great test taker, they end up the loser in China’s public education system. Sort of reminds me of Eva’s Success Charter chain where children who do not test well get the boot one way or the other.

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   • ciedie aech says:

     February 27, 2016 at 1:53 pm

     I have enjoyed watching documentaries where an unhappiness with standardized testing has led some Chinese educational leaders to see that it is not their country, but the United States (a country where we have traditionally had a less standardized approach to teaching our students) which has produced the most economy-enriching entrepreneurial patents. How sad to watch as we methodically and abusively force that entrepreneurial, think-outside-the-box spirit out of our classrooms.

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     • Lloyd Lofthouse says:

       February 27, 2016 at 9:22 pm

       Yes, it is sad. It is tragic what is happening the public education system in the United States thanks to the billionaire autocrats like Bill Gates, The Koch brothers and the Waltons.

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2. artseagal says:

   February 27, 2016 at 3:15 pm

   So ironic this reversal! But soon enough, the Chinese won’t be scouting for schools in the US because there will be far and few that enable the whole child to develop (and universities will be under a Pearson style mandate too)! There are only so many students that the private schools (you know the schools where Gates, Rhee, Obama etc send their kids) can accept.

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3. howardat58 says:

   February 27, 2016 at 9:46 pm

   Diane, I am putting this link in here as it gives a very broad picture, in the massive comment section, of the mess that British education is in. Sounds no better than the US already. I hope you have time to peruse it:

   http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/feb/26/uk-schools-suffering-as-new-teachers-flock-abroad-warns-chief-inspector

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