Cristy Li

Finally a Break –Yan Peng QQ.com

President Obama recently described China as a “strong prosperous, successful member of the community of nations,” educators will not forget that Secy of Education Arne Duncan, referred to Shanghai number 1 on ‘Program for Intl Student Assessment’ (PISA) testing as a “wake up call” for education reform in America, writes CM Rubin–The Global Search for Education but China style?

What Obama (naively) doesn’t know, doesn’t tell you or just doesn’t care about Education in China.

Fifteen year old Sun Jia Lu, wakes up each morning at 6:00 am eats breakfast on the bus to school, sits through 8 classes and then returns home where she studies until 1:00 am the following day, wakes up 5 hours later and repeats process.

Weekends are not for resting but tutoring sessions, she has done this for 9 years–all of this for Gaokao she says outside her Beijing high school.

The “Gaokao” will be administered over 3 days this week which is the ultimate tool for social advancement in China–Sun Jia Lu, says its behind the nickname teenagers in China, have given to themselves the Damaged Generation is Obama smarter than a 15 year old?

Related: How Now, Gaokao? –Chinopoly

High School Boy Sells Kidney for iPad2 –China Hush

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