The Global Search for Education: How They Decide Who Gets In
“Many assumed that applicants from China, in particular, would have had a lot of formal test preparation, given the country’s long history of the civil service examination and the powerful role of the gao kao for admissions today. As a result, they expected higher scores.” — Julie Posselt How do the admissions decision makers in U.S. Higher Education institutions decide which international graduate students...
The Global Search for Education: From Shanghai
“In PISA 2009, we found that Chinese students don’t like rote learning in math. Most teachers don’t believe in rote learning and encourage students to be creative.”– Zhu Xiaohu Shanghai is the largest city in China; who in education is not aware of the fact that this city’s students finished at the top of the charts in the PISA 2009 exam? Since then, educators from all over the world have travelled...
The Global Search for Education: East vs. West — A School in Beijing
“As the Americans have the American Dream, the Chinese have the Chinese Dream, and education is the foundation.” — David Barrutia “Diligence, Rigor, Democracy and Pioneering” is the school motto of Beijing No. 4 High School, founded in 1907 during the Qing Dynasty. To date, the school has taught over 35,000 Chinese and foreign students and is considered one of China’s leading secondary...
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