http://www.thethinkingstick.com/conversations-and-the-flat-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conversations-and-the-flat-world Educator Consultant Author Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/conversations-and-the-flat-world/#comment-1077 somestudent Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:32:05 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=274#comment-1077 Public schools in the upper secondary level (grade 10 and above) are more prestigious than private schools and they are not for everybody. It all depends on how you do on your lower secondary school leaving exam. You apply to a list of the schools you are interested in attending in the order of their lowest acceptable scores before this exam. The acceptable score for a private school is much lower than that of any public school. That is to say, if you cannot get into a public school, you go to a private school. Also upper secondary schools are not part of mendatory education so even public upper secondaries have a tuition fee. Private upper secondaries do tend to have better facilities but in reality, they don't attract serious students. The only deciding factor of where a student is going to college is her performance on the standardized college entrance exam. All the study, assignments, grades, tutoring, are just preperations for this exam. Like lower secondary schools build their reputations by how many students they send to PUBLIC "key" upper secondary schools, those uppers build their reputations by how many students they send to prestigious first tire four years colleges. A typical private school is usually the feeder of second tire four years colleges and vocational three years colleges. Public schools in the upper secondary level (grade 10 and above) are more prestigious than private schools and they are not for everybody. It all depends on how you do on your lower secondary school leaving exam. You apply to a list of the schools you are interested in attending in the order of their lowest acceptable scores before this exam. The acceptable score for a private school is much lower than that of any public school. That is to say, if you cannot get into a public school, you go to a private school. Also upper secondary schools are not part of mendatory education so even public upper secondaries have a tuition fee. Private upper secondaries do tend to have better facilities but in reality, they don’t attract serious students. The only deciding factor of where a student is going to college is her performance on the standardized college entrance exam. All the study, assignments, grades, tutoring, are just preperations for this exam. Like lower secondary schools build their reputations by how many students they send to PUBLIC “key” upper secondary schools, those uppers build their reputations by how many students they send to prestigious first tire four years colleges. A typical private school is usually the feeder of second tire four years colleges and vocational three years colleges.

]]> http://www.thethinkingstick.com/conversations-and-the-flat-world/#comment-1076 Mark van 't Hooft Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:54:30 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=274#comment-1076 Jeff, Thanks for posting your experiences as an educator in Shanghai. I spent a little bit of time there myself this summer at East China Normal University, as a visiting expert at an ed tech conference. Shanghai is a fascinating place. I learned a lot about education in China from the graduate students I worked with at ECNU. However, one of the things I would have liked to do but didn't get to was visit some k-12 schools in the city. Now I can do that virtually :) I've followed your blog in the past, but will do so more now as I am very interested in your experiences while you are in China. Keep us posted. Jeff,
Thanks for posting your experiences as an educator in Shanghai. I spent a little bit of time there myself this summer at East China Normal University, as a visiting expert at an ed tech conference. Shanghai is a fascinating place. I learned a lot about education in China from the graduate students I worked with at ECNU. However, one of the things I would have liked to do but didn’t get to was visit some k-12 schools in the city. Now I can do that virtually I’ve followed your blog in the past, but will do so more now as I am very interested in your experiences while you are in China. Keep us posted.

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