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China's competitive college entrance examination, described here as the mechanism for distributing scarce higher-education opportunities.
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gaokao
The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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Glossary
China's national college entrance examination, treated here as the emotional and organizational center of the school system.
Glossary
China college entrance exam, introduced by the host as the center of teaching-to-the-test criticism.
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China's national college entrance examination, treated here as the main mechanism for distributing scarce higher-education opportunity.
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He argues that scarce university places and the gaokao make pressure and competition structurally central to Chinese schooling.
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Jiang says the gaokao was delayed by one month during COVID school closures, something he describes as unprecedented in the previous thirty years.
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Jiang argues Chinese schools are built around extrinsic motivation, with test scores determining praise, rewards, and a student's sense of self-worth.
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He treats the one-month postponement of the Gaokao during coronavirus as an extraordinary signal of weak confidence in the state's pandemic response.
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The hosts frame Chinese education as a tension between high test performance and criticism of rote pedagogy, Gaokao teaching, rigidity, hierarchy, and cheating.
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Every test, including IQ, SAT, Gaokao, and PISA, fundamentally tests the ability to do well on that test.
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China education has three major goals: mass literacy/numeracy, nationwide political orthodoxy, and merit-oriented distribution of scarce education resources.
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Parents resist reform because they read elite reforms as an attempt to remove the only fair ladder their children have.
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"Sure. So China has the world's largest public school system. It educates about 200 million children. And it's a very monolithic system. So you..."
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"...college entrance examination, what we refer to refer to as a gaokao, would be delayed by one month. And this has never happened before..."
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"So, if you can imagine a high -speed railway system, which China is very proud of, and which has been very successful, imagine that..."
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"...of Chinese education during coronavirus is that they've announced that the Gaokao, the National College Interest Examination, will be postponed by a month. And..."
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"...way to save your family is by doing well in the Gaokao. And you know, these pep rallies, they'll try slogans like one point..."
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"...ubiquitous practice of teaching to the test, teaching specifically to the Gaokao, to the college entrance exam. You have a great deal of criticism..."
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"in the pedagogical system in China, and about the rampant cheating that may result from some of the above. So today we're delighted to..."
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"...the test, including the IQ test, including the SAT, including the Gaokao, which is the National College Interest Examination in China, including the PISA...."
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"So what we have in China is basically a blended model of a confusion system with a Stalinist system. The system has three major..."
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"...-oriented way possible. And that's why we created something called the Gaokao, the National College of Interest Examination. So every child, the moment he..."
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"...this problem with, as soon as you try to reform the gaokao or if you suggest, for example, lowering the percentage of English or..."
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"And during the May 4th era. That's right. And the communist elite, people who run the economy, are concerned that the education system is..."
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Jiang starts with what looks like praise for China's move online during COVID.
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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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The interview begins with a familiar Western panic: Shanghai tops PISA again, so maybe the future belongs to China.
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