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This is a 10 minute conversation with the founder of The Library Project and Christine Lu of The China Business Network.
The Library Project is very excited to announce that they have provided twelve elementary school libraries in less than a month throughout China. The Library Project donated thousands of Chinese language children’s books, as well as tables, chairs, plants, globes, and children’s dictionaries.
The Library Project will be donating thousands of Chinese language children’s books, hundreds of tables and chairs, plants, globes, children’s dictionaries, and providing librarian training to an entire school district in the ShaanXi Province.
KarmaSense is a positive alternative to Google’s AdSense for your website or blog. The Library Project, a small charity that provides books to elementary schools in the countryside of China developed KarmaSense to help raise awareness of their good works. They need your help.
The University of Maryland's Smith School of Business in Shanghai held a very successful charity fundraiser for The Library Project on November 24, 2007 that raised over 45,000 RMB ($6,000 USD).
When Thomas Stader, director of The Library Project, pulls up to a rural school with a truckload of brand new books, tables and chairs, he and his volunteers don't bother unloading them. The children swarm the caravan and do it for them.
One of my students gave a short speech yesterday on the person who had most influenced her life. Like many others she named her mother as her personal hero. It was a great impromptu speech and I applauded her for her candor about one issue in particular:
China is in desperate need of curriculum and faculty development.
The massive college entrance exam that every teenager in China took yesterday isn't as Confucian as you might think. Sam from the Useless Tree explains.
Thousands of university students, furious about fake diplomas, rampaged through an eastern Chinese city for two days this week, unnerving the nations leaders who have grown mistrustful of campus unrest since the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989.
China is abandoning the Marxist template that has dominated the nations history textbooks since the 1950s. (requires registration)
Sclipo launches a new live video feature, “Sclipo Live”. Sclipo Live lets you teach for money one-on-one through live video conferencing.
A humorous "what if" for anyone studying Chinese or teaching English.
A commentary in The Age (Australia) argues that China has a long way to go in catching up with the West in education, whatever the numbers may say.
Rick makes some interesting observations about China's young and how they're running a muck, but rather than the parents stepping in and playing the responsible role, netizens are once again triumphing the cause.
Gift Cards! This holiday season give the gift of children's books to an elementary school in China. Gift cards come in 50, 100, 250 and 500 book amounts. Each book costing 8 yuan.
