Two deadly school fires in China within the last week have led to a surge of online criticism of inadequate fire safety measures, as well as complaints about online censorship, government callousness, and a dearth of media...
The death of 13 elementary schoolers in a dormitory blaze has sparked outrage across China, not least due to a marked dearth of independent reporting on the disaster. The lack of media coverage of the blaze is highly reminiscent...
China’s nearly 300 million students will be studying “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” this coming school year, according to guidelines published by the Ministry of...
Early this month in Changzhou, Jiangsu, a fifth-grade girl committed suicide at school, stirring a debate about the ethics of pushing political ideology on schoolchildren. The girl, ten-year-old Miao Kexin, is shown on school...
The emerging use of artificial intelligence-aided analysis in public school classrooms has raised...
No “very close relationships” between students of the same sex? A 50cm minimum...
Jiayang Fan, a rural-born Chinese girl who later left China for the United States, tells her life story as a girl in rural China under the one-child policy . From the New Yorker: In my kindergarten class of only children, we...
As China is still trying to recover from several recent natural disasters, the BBC reports that a landslide in Yunnan Province buried a school and two other houses: Nineteen people, 18 of them children, were buried when the...
Theresa Tang and Kelvin Wong report for Bloomberg: Hong Kong will suspend classes at all primary schools, kindergartens and childcare centers for 14 days starting tomorrow after a confirmed cluster of swine flu cases, Chief...
From China News: Henan Province‘s Zhengzhou City has a “Red” elementary school, which requires the student to recite “Chairman Mao’s Quotations“, to stand guard with the red tassel gun, and to plant farm crops like sunflowers and corns within the school. However, this proud Headmaster met with intense opposition from the outside world. Protestors said […]
From the Beijing Star Daily, via sina.com (in Chinese), translated by CDT (link): Three elementary school students were punished to take off their pants for failing to finish their homework the day earlier in Wuchuan City, Guangdong Province. The teacher, Ms. Chen, discovered three of her students didn’t finish their homework, and asked them to […]
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