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Continue reading →: Lowering Standards in the US and “Hidden Rules” in China: Campbell’s Law and The Causes Education Corruption
On October 28, the New York Times reported a federal study that finds that nearly a third of the states in the U.S. lowered their academic standards in recent years, a phenomenon called “Race to the Bottom” by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. A day later, the same paper reports…
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Continue reading →: U.S. Scientist and Engineer Supply as Strong as Ever: A New Study Finds
There is widespread fear that US is not preparing enough talents in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) while its global competitors, such as China and India, are producing a lot more engineers and scientists. And this fear has been used to fuel investment in STEM education in the United…
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Continue reading →: China Works on another Round of Education Reform to Foster Creative Talents
China has been working on another round of major education reforms. A national team of government leaders, education officials, and education leaders have been working on a mid and long term strategic plan that will guide education development in China for the next decade or so for over year now.…
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Continue reading →: The Mismeasure of Education: Worthy Knowledge in the Age of Globalization
Last week, getideas.org published a post of mine on its Thought Leader’s blog. I am reposting it here. ———- In my new book Catching Up or Leading the Way, I mostly focus on issues facing education in the United States noting that the current education reform efforts, with their emphasis…
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Continue reading →: You will enjoy this: Not On the Test
Chris Knott, Principal of the International Baccalaureate World Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina shared this excellent song by Tom Chapin–it’s a funny, but really sad description of what has happened to education in the U.S.. http://www.notonthetest.com/index.html Thanks, Chris.
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Continue reading →: WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show Interview
10-12-2009: WNYC’s Brian Lehrer show interview about my book: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2009/10/12
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Continue reading →: “Created in China:” PRI’s The World Radio Series on Creativity in China
To those who want to learn more about innovation and creativity in China, I suggest that you listen to to read the transcript of this series produced by PRI and reported by The World’s Asian Correspondent: Mary Kay Magistad. While it is very consistent with what I have written in…
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Continue reading →: Education Week Reporter Writes about my Book
Yesterday, Sean Cavanagh, a reporter of Education Week, wrote about my book on Ed Week‘s Curriculum Matters blog under the title Chinese-American Scholar on American Education, and Foreign Competition. Thanks.
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Continue reading →: AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice Publishes my comments on common core standards
The Fall issue of AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice includes a commentary of mine on the common core standards. This article gives me more space to lay out my views and bring evidence to support them than the Op-ed piece published in Detroit Free Press. The issue also includes…
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Continue reading →: Arne Duncan’s Mistaken View of Education and NCLB
Yesterday(September 24, 2009) Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivered his first major speech about the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) 1965. The law’s last reauthorization took place in 2002 and resulted in what is known today as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). In his speech, Duncan…
More about Yong Zhao
Dr. Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education at the University of Kansas. He previously served as the Presidential Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the College of Education, University of Oregon, where he was also a Professor in the Department of Educational Measurement, Policy, and Leadership. Prior to Oregon, Yong Zhao was University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, executive director of the Confucius Institute, as well as the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence. Additionally, he worked as a professor of educational leadership in the Faculty of Education at University of Melbourne and senior researcher at the Mitchell Institute of Victoria University in Australia. He was a visiting Global Professor at University of Bath and a visiting scholar at Warwick University in the UK.
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