how are chinese schools different from u.s. schools?
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Well I used to be in a Chinese elementry school for 2 years before transfering to an international school so hope this helps.\nFirst there can be as many as 50 kids in one class, and only one teacher for the class. In all the classrooms the setting is the same: one of those little tables with a little 'drawer' for each student, so no one sits together. \nYes we wear school uniforms, one for the warm weather and one for the colder weather. In some school the dress code can be a little too strict. The school I went to allowed only red hair accessories.\nWe learn Chinese more by writing them than prouncing them. The reason is because there are many words that sounds the same. With the writing the school can be pretty strict. you'd have to write the characters in a certain order, like "write the left half of the word first, starting from the top" etc.\nMath was also very important. In fact the Chinese students learn the more complicated math long before the American students do.\nAll the sciences (biology, chemistry etc) are in one class, I think. i don't know too much about it though.\nAs for PE because it's a big class the students usually play group games. For younger kids it's games like tag, when they get older they can also play badminton, table-tennis or even basketball.\nAnd yes after exams all students get a 'rank' out of his/her class, her grade, and I think the school. Because of the schools' size being in top 20 is quite an honor.
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in terms of numbers there are quite a few, but nothing compared to indonesia, malaysia, or thailand. per centage wise, 0.8% of the american population is chinese. \nthere are more chinese in the tiny little country of viet nam than the entire usa.
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The American education system works very well for the US but it lacks something many other countries have. And that is GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. Italian schools for example don't aim much at providing us with a specific school target (as it happens in the US) but the purpose is that of providing each student with the widest possible knowledge, although pointing at specific sectors at university. On top of that, many countries like India, China and Japan have old traditions in family education and lots of philosophy, while in the US superficiality rules. All this gives guys from those countries a higher capacity to look into problems, often with a multilateral approach, that Americans normally don't have. On top of that, Americans educated in the US normally have such a level of specialization that they end up by following only their professional field, rather than gaining a general, wider knowledge, which sooner or later comes useful also at work. This makes US people appear less intelligent than others, even if in actual fact the problem is not the IQ but rather the way they use the same amount of intelligence. Chinese, Japanese, Indians, see much more in depth than Americans, while Americans always go for Easier, Simpler, More Straighforward solutions, which are not always the best solutions. In a word, they are rarely able to work out solutions that are as complex and efficient as those that an Indian, Chinese or others would do. (See war in Iraq for example. It was tackled in such a naive way that the results are before the eyes of the whole world. And those plans were made by the people who are supposed to be the best US have on hand. Even if they did it only for Oil, the plan would still look tremendously naive).
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its 50/50 why is because if the child goes to skool in india it with teach em their culture and origin. but the u.s is more advanced...so they will learn more. (no offence to anyone)
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As a recent immigrant, I've noticed that the three most obvious differences to Europe are...\n\n(1) Tenure. Underperforming teachers must be fired. Tenure is ridiculous.\n\n(2) Underfunding is common world-wide. However, bizarrely in the US, non-critical programs are not cut first. In Europe underfunded schools focus on Math and English, all else is sacrificed before these. However it appears social studies and other non-critical courses continue regardless of overall funding.\n\n(3) You must stream kids based on skills. It is ludicrous to think a "no child is left behind" system will work, a more apt name would be "no child allowed to get ahead".\n\nBeyond this, I would suggest, get parents out of the class room, (no idea why this is thought to be a good idea in the US) and bring back discipline.
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China..War isn't just who'se got more tanks and more missiles.\nThe chinease people are more cultured and better educated and the average chinease citizen knows far more about the outside world than the average American, they are not apt ot belive in such fairy tales like those that fill the amrican media about other nations and therefore they are less apt to getshoked when facing the real world in a real world.\nBesides, the educational system in china is better, and is not weakened by a weird control of regressive religious thought as the case with america andtherefore the chinease aremore innovative and can produce better research, which helps in modernizing weapons.\nThe chinease production is the highest in the world(500 major industrial cities!)and their rate of development is staggering(from 10-16% yearly!) They can afford a long war(and it has to be loong causeyou just can`t destroy the whole of china by a sudden nuclear strike, not unless you wish to commit suicide!)\nIn short China have wisdom, innovation and culture + a very modern army+ 1.3 billion citizens, most of them youth who are able to serve and ell trained for fighting.\nLets hope such war will never happen.\n\nAnd again it isn`t amatter of who spends more. USA is having a major problem in Iraq despite being a million times richer! And USA will not dare attack Iran despite having a far superior army, war isnt that simple, it isn`t a fight in a bar:)
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I have taught in american schools in the US and overseas. I have also lived overseas for many years. It is my opinion that many other countries have more rigorous programs than US schools and produce some outstanding students. The top US students probably would compete fine with graduates from other countries. The average graduate, however, may not be quite as prepared.
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In the UK they have O levels and A levels\n\nI went to an international school that had a similar system to America. They tend to have a high school diploma, graduating high school when you are 17 or 18. Some people also do the Advanced Placement classes, which are first year university courses (as in university in America for the first year, you usually attend a range of general classes before you declare your major in the second year). \n\nA U.S degree, as in a degree from university is the equivalent as the UK's degree at the end of undergraduate degree. \n\nIt is a bit still to say that an O level is the same as a university degree from lets say Harvard university or Yale
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China's communism is much deeper rooted than the Soviet System.  One thing you can say for the Chinese is that they do evolve to new systems when they are better.  You can see this slow change over the thousands of years that China has existed.  Kinda makes you feel like a baby country when you think the US has only been around for 200 years.
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In some countries (not the US), they just teach things and sometimes don't teach the kids how to think about the subject (asking questions and writing reactions). In the US, they sometimes focus more on using your knowledge to make questions and reactions. Also the US also sometimes focuses on self-esteem.
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English and Chinese are two different language.\n\nEnglish is not toner, and is phonic.\n\nBut for Chinese, it is toner, and not phonic.  It is pictorial.\n\nIn learning chinese, one has to master the writing by practice it.  It has many strokes in one word.  \n\nEach word is not make up of certain phonic. Each similar sound has different tone, and mean differently, and it is also written differently.\n\nIn English, we learned phonic since young, and what we need is ABC as basic.  \n\nBut in Chinese, there is no tense, no verb to be etc.  It is a simple language in that sense.  No much rule involved.\n\nSo, each language is unique in it's own. \n\nHope you enjoy it.\n\nRegards\n\n(I've mastered English, Chinese and Malay.  Now the greatest challenged for me is to learn Thai.  It is much more difficult that the 3 language I have learned.)
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Trust me, compared to many American kids your already way ahead of the curve. Now for your questions. \n1) No, Egnlish & Chinese is enough. Some Americans can't even speak their on language very well.\n2) Math? Algebra, Calculus, maybe Statistics. Those will do for most majors.\n\n3)You will have to ask a school official.\n\n4) No, not required.\n\nI wish you well, Princeton is one of the top Schools in the US. Many will apply and don't get in. Have a second or third choice you would also like to attend. While quite long trip for you, a campus visit is aways a good thing in making your selection of schools. It lets you see the place beyond the advertising flyers. My Self, I always had dreams of going to the US Naval Academy. I settled instead on Temple University. Good choice? In the long run yes. I lacked some of the academic skills to perform at a high stress place like USNA. However, I would have liked the end result if I had made it.
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I started teaching in China ten years ago, everywhere from BeiDa all the way down to rural schoolhouses.\nUnfortunately there are very few schools left in China, only businesses pretending to be schools.\nStill, if you want more info check out http://teflchina.org/ for the most comprehensive site on the subject.
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From what I have seen, American High schools pale in comparison to schools in other developed countries.  What we seem to be about a school behind.  Our college is their high school, out high school is their middle school.\n\nWhen I went to Europe on an exchange, the students in 10th grade were learning calculus and they had to take like 4 languages.  At home I was taking geometry and one measly Spanish class.\n\nAnd Asia is a WHOLE different story.  Their 5 year olds are smarter than American high schoolers.\n\nI think its a bit of a shame, but our government is so scared to single people out or leave people behind.  Everyone has to have an equal opportunity.  And I am all for equal opportunity, but if a student refuses to take advantage of his opportunity, then screw him.  Our laws keep "dumbing down" the curriculum and forcing homogeneous grouping (no smart kids classes and dumb kids classes) so the motivated kids get bored and aren't challenged, and the lazy kids don't do any better because they don't want to and they have no intent of trying any harder.  Schools can't kick out students who don't want to learn, and teachers get put in the middle of the whole mess.\n\nAnyway, I will stop ranting now...
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I'm more interested in knowing if the problems are similar worldwide.  Discipline is definitely the #1 problem in the US schools.  And it seems that discipline is a bigger problem in the US than in other parts of the world.  Just watch HBOs "The Wire" based on real Baltimore inner-city schools.  I wonder if such similar situations occur as frequently in say, China, Mexico or Russia?\n\nIs US the only country with a generation of parents who have large number of troubled children in schools?
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We have them in my school. The kids are amazingly responsible...but it's an overseas international school (with kids from over 40 different countries). The rules are totally different over here.
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Canada has three types of schools - public, catholic and private. \n\nThey can be either french, english or immersion (dual or single track; english or french)\n\nSchools run from elementary to middle school or intermediate to high school and in some places straight from elementary (immersed with middle or intermediate) to high school.\n\nSome schools in Canada are called community schools a terminology that has lingered on from Britsih influence - a community school is a a publicly funded school.\n\nIn additional we some specialized schools (trade, special needs, artsy etc.) which can be either type of school - public, catholic, or private and can either be french, english, immersion etc.