China Global Education Ranking Has Surpassed the United States
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Headquartered in Paris, France, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) "International Student Assessment," December 7 officially announced a new Survey on the global education. Take the test in the U.S. public and private schools of 5233 students in science, reading and math three projects were ranked 23,17 and 31. This result suggests that the United States ranked in the global middle level education, while students from China in the top three results.
It is reported that the survey was conducted in 2009 in 65 countries and regions worldwide within the test object of 15-year-old student. Shanghai, China from about 5100 students for the first time to participate in this test.
Education Minister Duncan: test results are accurate and reliable, is deafening alarm
Barack Obama: the competition in the future the risk of lagging behind the United States
This finding caused an uproar in the United States. U.S. media said the United States since 2002 through the "No Child left behind" the relevant education laws, the United States despite a series of education reforms, but still lag behind the competition in a global education.
U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan believes that the test results are accurate and reliable, and stressed that the U.S. must face the grim reality of educational backwardness. He said: "For me, this is an ear-splitting alarm. We meet in the United States living in the middle level of education? Our goal should be the global leader in education." Dean of Columbia University Teachers Darfur Mann believes that the U.S. education sector a major worry is that teachers can not attract top professional talent in China and other countries the situation is the opposite.
Obama is great to instill to the public "sense of urgency." Barack Obama on December 6 a speech in North Carolina, said the global economy will face more intense competition, winning the competition will be those most educated workers, in serious research and high-quality infrastructure countries. He said: "A few years ago, when multinational corporations were asked to create a new program where R & D base, 80% of companies choose China is not India, because these countries attach importance to mathematics and science, but also attach importance to training and education of workers . "Obama said, the harsh reality is that competition in the future the risk of lagging behind the United States, the United States must strengthen the infrastructure, research and innovation and investment in education.
U.S. media: The Government may to pressure Congress to change federal education law
Local Government: the school has been designed to improve competitiveness through new measures
For Chinese students, the excellent performance in the test, the United States reacted strongly. "New York Times," December 7 position in the headlines, to "test from Shanghai topped the list of students that educators wonder" in the title published in the news.
U.S. education experts believe that, although difficult to measure with a unified global standard of education, but the outstanding performance of Chinese students extraordinary attention. They believe that this is the rapid modernization of China, another important sign. The test project supervision process Shilaikeer and the Ministry of Education in the Reagan administration, serving Finn, all of the outstanding performance of Chinese students was "shocked." Finn said that in China during his visit he has witnessed how China will go all out to achieve development goals.
Dean of Teachers College, Columbia University, said Fuhrman, a number of Pacific Rim outstanding students in the test, because of the high academic standards in these countries, there is emphasis on education, cultural heritage, the Government attaches great importance to mathematics and science teaching profession but also by others respect. However, for China's global ranking in education, U.S. education experts have pointed out, this result shows that the Chinese cultural emphasis on education has a tradition of attention to teacher training and other characteristics, but also show that Chinese students than U.S. students more study time , and spent on sports, music and so less time accordingly. In addition, the test results do not represent all of China's educational level, because the survey did not cover the whole of China.
Decrease in the level of education to Americans worried. In fact, Washington and many other states, has been designed to improve schools through competitive new measures. Some media said here, Obama may be using the test results further to pressure Congress to modify the requirements of the federal education law next year, prompting state schools of low levels of education reform. |
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