diagnosis
Jiang distinguishes strong Chinese teaching culture from a problematic assessment system that still overvalues test scores and pressures students.
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Test scores
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Key Notes
model
Jiang says China's edtech boom rests on three advantages: cultural obsession with education, test-score fixation that turns learning into a solvable optimization problem, and WeChat as a shared communication backbone.
diagnosis
He argues that community support, not edtech spending by itself, is what ultimately produces higher test scores.
prediction
Jiang says that if educators do not participate in shaping AI, technologists will optimize only for test scores and create long-term corrosive effects on children's emotional development.
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His second lesson is that education systems need clear goals and alignment among parents and teachers, even though China's existing score obsession is itself a flawed goal.
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"...is problematic because all anyone cares about in China are the test scores right so this is all in the name of getting higher..."
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"...get together, all they talk about are their kids' education, their test scores and all of that. As you can imagine, this is very..."
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"If it's just about including test scores, then ed tech can solve that problem. And the third major advantage is that there's a communication..."
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"...you actually focus on children's well -being then you improve um test scores so let me give you give you some examples of this..."
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"...something that i've learned here at gmail is that a higher test scores and that's why there's so much money invested and that's why..."
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"...means and does, basically, he's like, okay, well, let's just improve test scores, and parents will be happy, and they'll pay for this product,..."
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"...what they're trying to achieve in education. Now, it's, it's more test scores, it's higher test scores. And I think that's a bad thing...."
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"...studying, and it sounds good because this will lead to higher test scores, but obviously you couldn't do that in America because the parents..."
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"...school leadership role at the moment as school principal and obviously test scores are always a really important data set for any school leader..."
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"...much more likely to do better in school. They have higher test scores. They have better careers. Their careers are more stable. They get..."
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"...the gaokao, you take an examination, and then based on your test score, you get into the university. and this is a system that..."
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"...okay in this new system grades are not the only factor test scores are not the only factor now it's focused on holistic holistic..."
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