Glossary
A multi-factor admissions regime presented as character evaluation but used, in Jiang’s account, to preserve elite control.
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holistic admissions
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Glossary
Admissions based on criteria beyond one exam score, including non-Gaokao measures.
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Holistic admissions and character assessment were built as discretionary screens that could preserve alumni power and exclude disfavored groups while appearing morally selective.
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Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen is presented as a hopeful experiment because it bypasses Gaokao and uses more holistic admissions.
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"for them to get in they have to take a test and also they're in class with smart people people okay so now harvard..."
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"good we need people who are manly who are strong who are brave we need white people okay so they develop this holistic system..."
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"So, right now is a season for education reform in China. In 2010, the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, announced a major education reform blueprint..."
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"We, we're seeing mixed results from schools so far. We're not really sure how the experiment is, is going to turn out. But, you..."
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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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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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