Nicholas Kristof's daughter was mortified to learn that Shanghai teachers deemed her third-grade homework to be first-grade level at a Shanghai school.
It seems that, despite largely sub-standard Chinese Universities and inadequate education in rural areas of China, "kids in the good schools in Chinese cities are leaving our children in the dust."
Kristof examines in today's NY Times op ed what we can learn from this, culturally and otherwise.
Chinese Medicine for American Schools
By Nicholas D. Kristof
The New York Times
"... The blunt fact is that many young Chinese in cities like Shanghai or Beijing get a better elementary and high school education than Americans do. That's a reality that should embarrass us and stir us to seek lessons from China...."For NY TimesSelect Non-Subscribers: Reprint of Kristof's op ed here.
Photo credit: Nicholas D. Kristof. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
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