The process:

The Hurun Education Top International Schools in China is based on a peer to peer review. Between July and December 2018, Hurun Education surveyed 330 experts from international education in China, up three-fold from last year.

Hurun Education asked them, in an unprompted question, to recommend up to five schools from each of ‘Greater Shanghai’ (Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang), ‘Greater Beijing’ (Beijing and Tianjin), Guangdong and ‘Rest of China’ that provides – in their opinion – a good all-round education.

Hurun Education received 1372 votes in total, an average of 4.2 votes from each respondent. Half were school principals and senior teachers with the other half investors, overseas study agents, training institutions and government education departments.

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The original is here, part one.

A friend writes:

I continue to work with a ‘new’ preschool in the middle of its second year with 3 of 5 classrooms currently open.
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This was a good read.

“Do parents have any important long-term effects on the development of their child’s personality? This article examines the evidence and concludes that the answer is no.”
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Here is an explainer of the Two Sessions.

With 2,987 representatives of the popular masses, The Two Sessions is the largest parliamentary body on Earth. It meets for two weeks in March and, essentially, turns the party’s wishes into law.

Yes, it’s a rubber-stamp.

But
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Maineland is a terrific documentary by Miao Wang.

You can view the trailer here.

Jiayang Fan contributes a thoughtful review here.  She writes:
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A Chinese principal friend recently wrote me:

We tried Project Based Learning (PBL) in our school. I know the research says it is a good thing. But when we did it, we failed. Students, teachers, and parents were upset. We went back to the old way.

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I remember 2001. We wanted to buy a building on Commonwealth Avenue, near Boston University, and renovate it into a school.

Bob said –

“We have to work with the City on zoning. It will be tough, but it can get done.”

I said –

“State law says schools have automatic zoning. Why do we need the City’s okay?”

Bob said –

“Because.”
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