Nobody can predict the US-China relationship in the coming 10 years. Obviously that relationship will have a huge effect on education exchange, whether Chinese students in USA, or American schools and teachers in China.
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Author: Mike G
Hi. In Boston, I created a K-12 school, and a graduate school of education. That's called Match Education. In Africa and India, I've helped others create many private schools. That's called Bridge International Academies. As of August 2018, I'm hoping to find the right partners to launch a new school in China.
245,000 now attend private “international” schools in China
From ISC research, via PIE News:
A 64% increase in the five years to 2018 mean the latest figures revealed 245,500 students enrolled in international private K-12 education in China.
Private education expenditure has risen among Chinese families, “a result of a growth in [China-wide] prosperity”, the report noted. It is unclear how this may be affected by a recent economic levelling-off, and the ongoing ‘trade war’ with the US, though some have speculated it is already affecting higher education.
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Bribery in Chinese Preschool
We’re on Day 40 of the Varsity Blues college admission bribery scandal here in the USA.
Now from BBC:
A photo exhibition of pupils’ family cars organised at a preschool in the city of Shenzhen in southeast China has provoked a heated debate on class discrimination in schools.
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Getting Into Harvard
Scott Alexander writes:
I am not Harvard material. But when I was looking at colleges, my mother pressured me to apply to Harvard. “Come on!” she said. “It will just take a few hours! And who knows? They might accept you! You’ll never get in if you don’t try!”
Harvard did not accept me. But my mother’s strategy is growing in popularity.
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Welcoming Autistic Kids In China
From Ni Dandan at Sixth Tome:
Duan, who was diagnosed with a mild form of autism spectrum disorder at 2 years old, is now in his second year at Dongguan Yulan Experimental Kindergarten, known locally as “Yulan.”
The public preschool is the only facility in the southern Chinese city that offers so-called integrated education — a model that has preschoolers without special needs learn, play, and socialize alongside those receiving support for certain conditions.
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Where should (young) Americans live if they live abroad?
Noah writes:
I’m a huge fan of living abroad, and I think many more Americans should do it. Living in a big, rich country with relatively few other countries nearby, Americans don’t tend to travel overseas much.
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Why is English a required subject in Chinese schools?
From Inkstone:
Q: Why does China make it mandatory to learn English?
A: As Rammstein sang, “we’re all living in Amerika, Amerika, Amerika.”
With English as the world’s most widely spoken language, it makes sense to teach it to the inhabitants of the world’s most-populous country.
But that wasn’t always the case.
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