EdWeek in China
Across the United States, political leaders, business executives, and educators have grown increasingly curious about China, and how the Asian nation's economic growth and modernization is tied to schools.
In this series, Education Week examines education in China today, the classroom strategies at work in schools, and the strengths and weakness Chinese educators and others see in their education system.
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China: Spaces
Photos by Sevans, June 20, 2007
While traveling for a story about science and math curriculum and teaching,
Education Week photographer Sarah Evans explored the idea of space and people in China.
June 18, 2007
From middle-class urbanites to migrant workers, an increasingly diverse cross section of Chinese families is turning to private schools.
June 18, 2007
Public schools in cities often charge higher fees to students from rural areas.
June 12, 2007
Teaching is one of the most stable and respected careers in China, but changes to the society and the education system are putting new pressures on teachers.
June 5, 2007
Chinese leaders are redesigning the way students are taught math and science so the younger generation will be prepared to help a changing society move forward.
April 16, 2007
East meets West every day in the principal’s office at Jindao Middle School.
April 10, 2007
Every time a teenager in the United States receives permission to study abroad in China, that fortunate Western soul would be advised to pay proper tribute to one of this city’s native sons—a cross-cultural pioneer named Yung Wing
April 6, 2007
Hundreds of teenagers stood quietly in the massive school courtyard on a chilly spring morning, in perfectly straight rows, evenly spaced.
April 3, 2007
I’d spent the all day in the offices of China’s top curriculum agency, asking some of the nation’s leading school mathematics and science experts about their work. Now, it was their turn.
Asian Equation: Student Moments in China
