Cinderella Teaching in the Greatest Monkey Show on Earth

Professor Lonnie B. Hodge writes an open letter to his students about what he hopes they will learn from being in his classes and about the conditions of education his students will face in the future.

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China lifts tuition fees for compulsory schooling nationwide 11 weeks 3 days ago

Chinese families across the country are able to send their children to school tuition-free in the nine-year compulsory education period as of Monday. From this fall semester, about 28.21 million urban students in primary schools and in junior high schools joined rural students to benefit from the plan, according to the Ministry of Education. The students still must pay for textbooks and uniforms.

Can the Wheels Be Put Back on Chinese Quality Contol? 1 year 20 weeks ago

Professor Lonnie Hodge takes a darkly humorous look at Chinese tire quality and a recent one-star safety rating of a new Chinese car model.

Future Police Officers Sleep In Politics Class 3 weeks 18 hours ago

Students at a school training future police officers are caught sleeping in a class about politics. Chinese citizens laugh at how useless politics classes are.

Teaching English to Prostitutes in China 10 weeks 4 days ago

Provocative title on an interesting article:

Students Run 120-240km For China's 60th Anniversary 5 weeks 5 days ago

China's education department is requiring Chinese students to run 1000-2000m every day throughout the next semester to celebrate China's 60 year anniversary. Chinese netizens respond, some happy that China was not founded earlier.

School Starts in Shanghai, 4 Students Commit Suicide 11 weeks 13 hours ago

Only after 2 days of school, 4 Shanghai middle school students have already jumped off buildings to commit suicide. Netizens blame the kids, education system, parents, society...

Back To The Future 1 year 47 weeks ago

Having tried to 'passively' learn Chinese for quite some time now, I'm starting to realize that there are all sorts of tricky cultural conflicts that are working hard to stomp out any hopes of mastery. Here's one... well, two actually...

China Universities: Pouring Shit Into Students' Minds 12 weeks 4 hours ago

China's prestigious Tsinghua University's website was hacked to show the school president saying Chinese universities are pouring shit into students' minds. Includes comments from many Chinese netizens.

China activists urge greater freedom in open letter to Hu 1 year 12 weeks ago

Over a thousand Chinese activists, lawyers and scholars have written an open letter to President Hu Jintao to ask for the release of political prisoners and for greater media freedoms.

In other news, Greenland's petitioning for the Summer Olympics.... right.