» 从PISA测试看中国教育鸿沟,城市农村的不平等,就是洋人认为除去上海整体而言PISA测试中国不如国外。
Shanghai (CNN) -- So, they apparently did it again.
For the second time in a decade, 15-year-olds in Shanghai have scored at the top of the PISA global education assessment, ranking number one in the world in reading, math and science
"In Shanghai, you have nine out of ten students telling you, 'It depends on me. If I invest the effort, my teachers are going to help me to be successful,'" Schleicher tells me during a taping of CNN's "On China" on location in the city.
But one thing is for certain. The results are not representative of a nation. China as a whole does not take the PISA exam. Data on a number of Chinese cities and provinces is not yet published by PISA. China as a whole is expected to be included in the 2015 assessment.
Data from the Rural Education Action Program (REAP) at Stanford University in the United States provides a stark picture of how Shanghai's education success is not repeated in China's less wealthy, rural interior.
While 84% of high school grads in Shanghai go to college, less than 5% of China's rural poor make it to university
High school attendance is just 40% in poor, rural areas of China.
And as they struggle with poverty and debate the opportunity cost of simply going to class, a significant number of rural students start dropping out in middle school.
Why are students dropping out?
Across the world's second biggest economy, the education system is vastly unequal. But incredibly, Schleicher tells me a child from a poor background in China has a better chance to be well educated than poor, rural students in other countries.
"The learning environment you would encounter there, the quality is a lot higher than what you'd encounter in a similar context almost anywhere else in the world," he says.
Seated across from Schleicher during the "On China" panel discussion in Shanghai is Andrea Pasinetti, the founder of Teach for China -- a non-profit that brings graduates from China and the U.S. to teach at some of China's most under-resourced schools.
Pasinetti reveals a particularly bullish view on rural education in China: "A lot of these (rural) schools tend to be boarding schools. So the school provides not only a context for classroom instruction, it also provides a context for personal growth and exploration."
Pasinetti's views are distinctly out of sync with that of educator Jiang Xueqin, currently the Deputy Principal of Tsinghua University High School.
"Kids in the rural regions are at a huge disadvantage. Teachers and school are under-resourced," he says.
"The other issue is that in the rural regions, there's a lot of movement so parents move to the cities leaving their kids behind in the schools. So there isn't that parental support and guidance that kids need to thrive.
"Rural schools are under a lot of cultural stigma. No one in China believes they will succeed."
Though Jiang's assessment is in line with what has generally been reported about China's rural education challenges, Pasinetti calls it an "irresponsible perception."
"It is a huge misconception that local communities aren't invested in the education of their children and grandchildren," says the Teach for China founder.
"I speak to grandmothers who are illiterate, who live often on two or three dollars a day... who would do anything and stop at nothing to make sure that the child they have in their home is able to achieve a great education.
"The big difficulty is that oftentimes, they don't know where to start."
The Chinese government is attempting to tackle the challenge. In 2010, China released a 10-year national education reform plan. Among other objectives, it plans to focus less on tests and get the best teachers into the rural communities that desperately need them.
"Every discussion you have with Chinese officials about education reform revolves around the question of equity," says Pasinetti.
But Jiang is not optimistic about the prospects for education equity in China.
"Over the years it will become worse and worse," he says. "The rich and powerful are choosing to detach themselves from the traditional school system."
Jiang sees a China where the wealthy will move education resources to a system of new private schools that cater only to them.
And that is the dark future China must avoid.
"If you don't change the school system now, you'll get people buying themselves out of it," says Schleicher.
"That's basically the challenge that China has."
“多年之后,它会越来越糟,”他说,“富人和当权者会选择把它从传统教育体系中脱离出去。”
江看到中国的富人将把教育资源转移到一个新的只迎合他们需要的私立学校体系之中。
而那是中国必须避免的黑暗未来。
“如果你不改变现在的学校体制,你会让人民为它买单。”施莱克尔说。
“这是中国面临的主要挑战。”
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论坛地址:http://www.ltaaa.com/bbs/thread-257124-1-1.htmlcouchloc • 4 days ago −
The point to notice is that China ranks 1st in the world in the PISA exam and the US ranks........36th. We like to think we are global leaders but we're not. There is something we can be learning about education from the Chinese to help our own system it seems.
harro_prease couchloc • 4 days ago
it's really the Confucian culture. look at all the top performing countries like South Korea Japan Singapore and regions like Hong kong taiwan and Shanghai they are all Confucian societies who stress the importance of education.
maverick harro_prease • 4 days ago
They are also genetically smart.
WiSeWoRdS maverick • 4 days ago −SHUT UP ABOUT GENETICS! ASIANS HAVE THESE SCORES DUE TO ETHICS AND EFFORT! I know this due to two simple things; I am roughly 60% Asian, and my Chinese mother instilled these values into me. I'm 14, among the highest scoring students in my school, and will hopefully be attending GSMST next year.
Google GSMST if you don't know it
“他们是遗传方面的聪明”
遗传学什么闭嘴!亚洲人有这样的分数是因为道德规范和努力!我知道这是因为这两个简单的事情。我大体上算是60%的亚洲人,我的中国妈妈灌输这些价值观给我。我14岁,在我的学校中分数最高,并有望参加明年的GSMST。
Google GSMST如果你不知道的话。
(以下评论更新于12月24日,译者:哲学的慰藉)
WiSeWoRdS maverick • 5 days ago
SHUT UP ABOUT GENETICS! ASIANS HAVE THESESCORES DUE TO ETHICS AND EFFORT! I know this due to two simple things; I amroughly 60% Asian, and my Chinese mother instilled these values into me. I'm14, among the highest scoring students in my school, and will hopefully beattending GSMST next year.
Google GSMST if you don't know it.
mateo WiSeWoRdS • 5 days ago
Of course it's not genetics. That doesn'tmake any sense. Shanghai is not genetically smarter than any of the poorprovinces in China.
当然这不是遗传学的问题。上海学生在遗传上并不比中国其他贫穷省份的学生更优越。
Sweet Mango mateo • 4 days ago
It's the culture. Not only Chinese but theAsian Indians as well. If a child doesn't make an "A", highest grade,the child are shamed and the parents see their kids are lazy.
mateo Sweet Mango • 4 days ago
Most Indians in India have a very low levelof education by Western standards. If the whole country of India valuededucation to the same extent as the Indian community in the USA, things wouldbe a lot different.
scott bleyle Sweet Mango • 3 days ago
Wonder what the true suicide rate is?
不知道自杀率是多少?
TYRANNASAUR mateo • 4 days ago
You're correct here mateo.... if I spend$1,000,000 on my house and my neighbor spends $10,000 on his it's going toappear that I'm richer....same in China...spend lots of money educating the fewrather than spending lots of money to educate the many makes it look good intheir chosen areas.
mateo TYRANNASAUR • 4 days ago
Are you suggesting that the Chinese governmentspends more money on Shanghai than other provinces just to confuse foreignersthat look at PISA scores and don't realize that Shanghai is only 1% of theeducation system?
Shanghai spends more money on educationthan most other provinces because Shanghai is much richer than most otherprovinces. It's the same reason that Massachusettes spends a lot more money oneducation than Alabama.
Mantismech mateo • 3 days ago
Chinese government, i.e. Communist Party,spends very little on education. China's education system is capitalism in itspurest form. If you have the money you can pay for a secondary education. Themore you can pay, the better the school. The same principle applies to China'shealth care system.
CharlieSmith mateo • 4 days ago
First, genetically, people in Shanghai aresmarter than
anyone in China and now anyone in theworld.
OECD also considers money issue indetermining the level of education achieved in China. Of course, with money,you get good teachers and infrastructures, OECD discovered that students frompoor provinces achieved OECD average. This is almost impossible because OECDaverage is considered very high by world standard and students from poorprovinces in China were able to achieve that. Remarkable.
mateo CharlieSmith • 4 days ago
12 Chinese provinces took the PISA testsbut did not release scores. The head of PISA said some regions of theseprovinces had scores close to the OECD average. We need actual data todetermine how close these provinces are to the OECD average.
CharlieSmith mateo • 4 days ago
OECD officials spent 1 year investigatingand then published the results of 12 provinces. If you want actual data, youneed to spend 1 year to analyze it because that's what OECD officials had done.
mateo CharlieSmith • 4 days ago
No, they did not publish any data from the12 provinces. The Chinese did not allow the data to be published. You areeither confused or lying.
没有,他们没有发布有关这12个省份的任何数据。中国人不允许发表这个数据。你不是搞错了就是在撒谎。
CharlieSmith mateo • 4 days ago
OECD officials did not publish all the databut the results of their 1 year investigation, including 12 provinces. You justdon't have the skill and experience to analyze the data, only OECD officialshave the skill sets.
mateo CharlieSmith • 4 days ago
No, they did not publish any data orresults from any of the 12 provinces. Why do you keep repeating such stupidlies?
Many talented statisticians work for theOECD, but there are thousands of equally talented statisticians that work forother organizations, governments, and businesses. Analyzing student test scoresis fairly simple, and does not require any unusual skill sets.
CharlieSmith mateo • 4 days ago
You are wrong. OCED officials have to visitthese students personally and that's why it took 1 year to investigate, analyzeand the published.
你错了。经合组织得亲自拜访这些学生,所以才花了1年时间来调查、分析和出版。
mateo CharlieSmith • 4 days ago
If you seriously think it is published,where is it? How does someone find this mysterious publication?
Visiting students does not help the analyzethe data. You obviously have no understanding of statistics.
CharlieSmith mateo • 4 days ago
As I said, OECD did not publish all thedata but the result.
By the way, analyzing statistics is notgood enough, interviewing and talking to each individual student is veryimportant to have a complete picture. 1 year is a long time to analyzestatistics.
BArt WiSeWoRdS • 4 days ago
I agree it is cultural. However, it couldbe genetics in that they have the general level of intelligence to realize thevalue of hard work. Over here when a kid does poor we blame the teacher andschool system. The reality is that the kid is not doing any work.
Disqualifyer BArt • 4 days ago
wait a second, if a parent just choses toplace all the responsibility on the kid, he or she is not going to do so well: itis a system, and a team collaboration; from parents to teachers, to theeducation system, down to the child, and the curriculum. simplicity doesn'twork here - if the majority of Americans don't understand what I've written, nowonder the system here in America is lost.
marsilius BArt • 4 days ago
Practically every human being has goodenough *genetics* to be intellectually capable of "realiz the valueof hard work." If you were trying to be funny, in implicitly calling thatinto question, I'm sorry I didn't recognize your attempt!
Rev WiSeWoRdS • 3 days ago
Actually genetics does have a part to play,but not in differentiating between societies. Every society will have a certainnumber of people who are outliers from the norm whom you can classify as morecapable of the mind or geniuses when compared to the average populace. A certainpercentage of a population will be born as geniuses, like say 1 out of 1000 or10000 people. Considering how China and Asia in general has such a hugepopulation compared to the rest of the world, this would also mean that Chinahas more potential geniuses available as a nation. Of course, this only appliesif these individuals receive the proper education to take advantage of this.
Mantismech WiSeWoRdS • 3 days ago
Calm down! Not everyone knows what GSMSTstands for. There must be millions of acronyms out there. I do agree with youAsians score high on standard tests because of effort and hard work.
Dr. Tod P. WiSeWoRdS • 2 days ago
Now you are a smart cookie! I am sure youknow that knowledge and experience gives wisdom and intelligence alone does notautomatically mean a person is wise. I have been having discussions with anAsian and she is quite persistent in her belief that Asians are geneticallymore intelligent based on test scores.
Congrats on your test scores and keeplearning as much as you can, combine it with hands on like machining and otherskills and you will go way beyond others. Flex that imagination too, it isnecessary for creativity and invention. I also hope you take lots of thingsapart and put them back together to see how they work, build that database.Good luck and more power to you! I have been working intensely with my 2 yearold grandson to give him that leg up.
PhantomFlash harro_prease • 5 days ago
Sure, that's why europeans bagged asians in18th-20th century. because they weren't confucian enough back then, and the U.S.topped education in the early 20th century because we were so Confucius. Thetrue secret is parents who are desperate for children's success and strongdisciplined school system. Confucius only valued education in humanity, but hadlow regard for natural sciences and vocational education. And he had utterdisdain for business/finance education. Also, confucian culture tend todiscourage dissenting voice, something very crucial in advancement of science.
Filipe PhantomFlash • 5 days ago
I believe you are right about parentsambition and discipline however...Confucius had no regard to business/financeeducation? Thats a huge error in your argument. Confucius started to getnoticed not just as a teacher but when he took a post in government of the Lustate. He considered the proper training and education of government officialsas essential. He took long and careful considerations on the issues of businessand economic management specially in regards to ethics.
PhantomFlash Filipe • 4 days ago
Confucius didn't think business/trade wasadding anything to the economy. He believed farmers to be the fundamentalbackbone of any successful nation, merely transporting same good from onelocation to another and profiting from it was viewed as exploitative andultimately unfruitful endeavor for the society. Which is fine, during his time,if you think about what was important for the society, it was mostly food.Trade practices were relatively primitive at the time with very low tradecapacity, so the focus was not on trading rice, but trading expensive luxuryitems like silk, tea and spices, which didn't benefit 95% of the people.
harro_prease PhantomFlash • 5 days ago
what an utter i d i o t i c view ofConfucianism. your logic is like saying literature is not important because itdoesn't have the answer to why Theory of relativity and quantum mechanics don'tquit have the same view on how the universe work.
Confucianism focuses on how an individualcan fit harmoniously into a society and how can a society be structured.
PhantomFlash harro_prease • 4 days ago
I never said literature is not important.Are you dyslexic? I said confucianism showed extreme favoritism towardshumanities studies - not just literature but history, philosophy and otherrelated fields at the expense of natural sciences and vocational training andit had disdain for business and trade. Many Chinese scholars and learned peopleincluding Sun Yat Sen pointed out confucianisms neglect of pragmatic pursuitsfactored in decline of Chinese civilization vs. the west.
TYRANNASAUR PhantomFlash • 4 days ago
Sure, that's why Europeans bagged Asians in18th-20th century. because they weren't Confucian enough back then,.....WellPhantom so what about the 85% rural poor that never get to aUniversity....aren't they Confucian enough?
PhantomFlash TYRANNASAUR • 4 days ago
I don't know what you're talking about.Please read my post again.
我不知道你在说什么。请在看看我发的内容。
Allen PhantomFlash • 5 days ago
The Europeans bagged Chinese in 18th-20thcentury because China was ruled by the foreign invaders who suppressed the HanChinese. They did so because they feared that the Han Chinese will take over,and the technology of China did not advance for 200 years.
PhantomFlash Allen • 4 days ago
Qing dynasty was one of the most successfulChinese dynasties in its history on the same breath as Han/Tang/Song era, farbetter than Ming it succeeded in terms of achievements and size of its territory.China wouldn't have inner mongolia, Manchuria or Tibet if it wasn't for theQing dynasty. Qing suppressed Han Chinese? do you know the composition of HanChinese in Qing's bureaucratic system? They were the majority at every levelsof the gov't.
mancaesar PhantomFlash • 4 days ago
Absolutely. Qing emperors were even carefulto choose the same number of Manchu and Han concubines so as not to upset thebalance.
当然。清朝皇帝还纳一样数目的满人和汉人为妾,以此保持满、汉平衡。
mateo harro_prease • 5 days ago −
No, your stupidity is not due to a lack ofConfucian culture. It is due to a lack of effort. You don't know what thisarticle is about because you are too lazy to read it. The poor provinces inChina with terrible education systems also have Confucian culture. Try again.