Aug 2018 to Aug 2019: A year-long journey to (help) create a new school in China
My emerging thoughts here, which feel a little jumbled.
All parents struggle with this, to varying degrees. This is from Li Ying in WorldCrunch:
What matters is that the government’s measure combating the academic burden falls into the trap of the “prisoner’s dilemma”.
Continue reading “Parenting Prisoner’s Dilemma”
From the Vancouver Sun:
Some Canadian educators, and researchers like Mengwei Su and Laura Harrison of Ohio University, say the intense concentration of Chinese students in Western schools brings with it drawbacks, however, mainly for the students themselves.
Even though Western universities welcome Chinese students as “a particularly lucrative market,” Su and Harrison found many of the young Chinese struggle with English and integrating into Western culture — partly because they are ending up in classrooms and living situations dominated by other students from China.
Continue reading “Chinese Kids at Canadian Universities: Isolated”
Parenting changes over generations, always, everywhere. But some eras/places have faster change than others. Parenting in China is in a period of rapid change.
From my friend Chris, I saw this blog. What would you do if your child drew all over your brand new couch, in crayon?
Today the US State Department issued an updated travel advisory about China.
1. How does this affect education efforts?
It makes it a bit harder to recruit American teachers to go to China.
Continue reading “Today’s China Travel Advisory”
From the Straits Times:
China has ordered local authorities and parents to “reduce the burden” of primary and secondary school children by giving them less homework, supervising their use of electronic devices, and ensuring that they get sufficient sleep.
Continue reading “New Chinese Law: Less Homework”
From Quartz:
Uganda’s education ministry is planning to add Mandarin language lessons to its secondary school curriculum at 35 schools
Continue reading “Ugandan High Schools To Require Mandarin”
