China's College Entrance Exam Is Serious Business

Monday, June 11, 2012 China's College Entrance Exam Is Serious Business Just as students around the country buckle down for final exams at school, their counterparts in China are sitting for a test of their own. But unlike students on this side of the Pacific, Chinese students have been preparing for this moment their entire high school careers, and in some cases, half their lives. At the beginning of every summer, the world's most populous nation bends over backward to accomodate the gaokao, China's national college entrance exam. Flight routes are rearranged to mitigate overhead noise, and roads to the testing facilities are cordoned off by law enforcement, the New York Times reports. Honking is forbidden. How Public Private Partnerships Compensate for Washington 'Graduation' Misspelled On Nevada High School's Diplomas Teachers Union On Verge Of Authorizing First Strike In 25 Years 10 Students From Same High School Earn Perfect ACT Scores Judge: Ark. May Not Base School Enrollment Decisions 'Solely On Race' BLOG POSTS Jacqueline Edelberg: Happy Summer! Please Don't Strike Because I love teachers and respect unions, when NBC Chicago reported that more than 90 percent of teachers had given the OK to strike, my heart sank. John Lundberg: A Powerful New Poetry Community for Youth PowerPoetry.org springs out of the success of last year's award-winning documentary To Be Heard, which followed three teenagers for four years as they struggled to grow up in a tough Bronx neighborhood. Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D.: Creationism's Expansion in Science Education Will Level the Playing Field Recent changes in South Korea have made it clear that fundamentalists are flexing some of the same muscles that their brethren have flexed in the United States. Timothy D. Slekar: Advice for Teachers' Unions Rank and file members must first help their neighbors understand that collective bargaining benefits the children and the community school. When children and schools benefit, the entire community thrives. Todd Farley: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics, or What's Really Up With Automated Essay Scoring Until the time comes that automated scoring engines can read and understand, the benefits of those systems seem quite limited to me.

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