The document compares and contrasts the American and Chinese school systems and their problems. It notes that the American system struggles with issues like student focus, poverty, classroom size, and technology integration. Meanwhile, the Chinese system has longer school days, homework during breaks, and is more focused on collective learning outcomes. The document argues that replacing the American system with the Chinese model could help address issues like discipline, language learning, teacher respect, and use of educational technology like monitoring headbands. Overall, it presents the case that China's system is superior and should be considered to replace the American approach.
The document compares and contrasts the American and Chinese school systems and their problems. It notes that the American system struggles with issues like student focus, poverty, classroom size, and technology integration. Meanwhile, the Chinese system has longer school days, homework during breaks, and is more focused on collective learning outcomes. The document argues that replacing the American system with the Chinese model could help address issues like discipline, language learning, teacher respect, and use of educational technology like monitoring headbands. Overall, it presents the case that China's system is superior and should be considered to replace the American approach.
The document compares and contrasts the American and Chinese school systems and their problems. It notes that the American system struggles with issues like student focus, poverty, classroom size, and technology integration. Meanwhile, the Chinese system has longer school days, homework during breaks, and is more focused on collective learning outcomes. The document argues that replacing the American system with the Chinese model could help address issues like discipline, language learning, teacher respect, and use of educational technology like monitoring headbands. Overall, it presents the case that China's system is superior and should be considered to replace the American approach.
The document compares and contrasts the American and Chinese school systems and their problems. It notes that the American system struggles with issues like student focus, poverty, classroom size, and technology integration. Meanwhile, the Chinese system has longer school days, homework during breaks, and is more focused on collective learning outcomes. The document argues that replacing the American system with the Chinese model could help address issues like discipline, language learning, teacher respect, and use of educational technology like monitoring headbands. Overall, it presents the case that China's system is superior and should be considered to replace the American approach.
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Section One, The American School System and Its Problems: Eva
The American school system has a lot of flaws in it. The four major problems are focusing, poverty, classroom size, and technology. Getting students to focus can be difficult for a majority of reasons, one being long days with little breaks, In America school days normally last 6-7 hours and students usually get only one 30-45 minute break. Another reason for this is distractions, Talking, phones etc, also because you are not forced to be focused students might not feel it’s necessary, when students are distracted it's harder to concentrate, get good grades, and even know what they are learning. The other problem is poverty, money issues is a big thing that affects a lot of families in America. The reason this would affect school is because school tuition is on average 1,000 (some schools are free, or cheaper) Even if you can pay that, students need food most schools in America don’t have free food(usually). Getting into a good school if you are in poverty is very difficult. Classroom size is also an issue. This is an issue because if there is a lot of students in one classroom with one teacher if a student needs one on one with a teacher because they are struggling it may be hard to get that time. Without that time students may struggle more and grades will most likely drop, because of this students may have a hard time focusing, completing assignments, and even enjoy the subject. Even though technology in schools is made for more resources, and to help students it can also distract students. For example technology lets kids play games, do other work while they need to focus, going back to getting students to focus technology could be one of those issues students are focusing.
Section Two, The Chinese School System and Technological Advancements - Olivia The Chinese school system is quite different from the American school system. Both in style of education and technology. A regular school day in China starts from 7:30 in the early morning and ends at around 6pm in the afternoon with a two hour lunch break in the middle of the day. However there are extra study classes held after school from 7pm to 9pm to help students study for the countless tests. There are also many schools that offer extra morning classes for math and science subjects on Saturday’s. The Chinese school year is divided into two terms starting with the beginning of the school year from September to late-mid January followed by four weeks of winter break. The second term starts from February and ends mixd July followed by six weeks of summer break. Students in China are required to have at least 9 years of education. There are three years of pre-school/kindergarten, six years of primary school and six years of secondary school. Multiple paths are available through the education system. After primary school students can go to secondary school from which they can choose to either go to academic secondary school or specialized/vocational/technical secondary education. According to the article “A brief introduction to the Chinese education system”, “Academic secondary education consists of junior (three years) and senior middle schools (three years). Junior middle school graduates wishing to continue their education take a locally administered entrance exam, on the basis of which they will have the option of i) continuing in an academic senior middle school; or ii) entering a vocational middle school (or leave school at this point) to receive two to four years of training” (Kan). The Chinese school system is rather confusing with so many routes you can take. Adding on to that, the second option for secondary school is specialized/vocational/technical secondary education. In short, vocational education is education for people who have already decided what they want to do in life. According to “10 Benefits of Attending a Vocational School”, “Vocational schools prepare their students for a specific trade, making them better prepared for the workforce”. Currently in China however, kids in vocational schools are dropping out more frequently and taking jobs that are irrelevant to their majors. This is due to the very low quality of vocational secondary schools. As stated in the article “China’s Vocational Education Reform and Foreign Investment Opportunities”, China is, “simultaneously encouraging private investment in vocational education. China believes upskilling its workforce is key to the country’s continued economic growth” (Zhang). After secondary school students have the option to continue into university or college. University offers four to five years of education to get undergraduate degrees to award academic degree qualifications. College’s offer three years of education for both academic and vocational subjects to get a diploma or certificate. The Chinese school system also differs in technology. In China there is a new headband called Focus1. It’s used to measure the focus of students in class.
Section Three, Reasons The Chinese School System Would be Better
Syriana As made evident in the descriptions listed above, the idea of the American school systems is problematic, while the Chinese school system is overall better and more technologically advanced in many ways. By replacing our current American school system with the Chinese school system, we could solve many of our problems. If most children were taught another common language growing up, resulting in the majority of our population being bilingual, it could be extremely helpful and would result in all the benefits of learning a second language being made available to a variety of people. Within China, nearly every child learns English in school as they are growing up. This is a helpful skill in a world where many languages are going extinct, and a select few are quickly becoming the most common, including English. Another issue to consider is discipline. There are practically no disciplinary issues within the Chinese school system, which seems drastically better compared to our current issues with discipline in the classroom. Within the Chinese school system, children are taught by the same teacher for many years, not just one, which allows the teacher to get to know individual students and their needs better. This can be helpful because, if a child is struggling or has specific educational needs, they have more of an opportunity to get to know their teacher better. More of an emotional bond can also be created in this way, making school a better and more enjoyable place to be overall. This also relates to how in China, rather than the focus being on individual students, the class sizes are larger and the teachers focus on learning as a whole. So, while the teachers are able to get to know students better over years, they focus more on the entire class as a whole to implement certain teaching methods. Though it might seem counterproductive, this has caused a rise in better grades across the country. If we had homework during breaks, such as they do in China, students would be able to recall information easier. This would be especially beneficial in language learning classes and math classes. Many schools and teachers in America choose not to implement homework over breaks, as they believe it will cause stress to the students, or they will not complete their work. However, in China, where they do have homework over breaks, it has proven to be helpful in recalling information and the majority of students complete all of their work. Within China, educators are adored and respected by students and the rest of society, while in America, becoming a teacher is often not a heavily desired job. If being a teacher was a more respected profession, such as it is in China, more people would likely choose to become teachers, and put more thought into the job. This would be very beneficial, as there is a shortage of teachers in the United States. All of the reasons above are made even more impressive when paired with the artificial intelligence and other technological advancements made in Chinese schools, used to benefit the children learning there, teachers, and guardians. The main advancements are headbands used to measure children’s focus during class; friendly robots in classrooms to help children with material and monitor them during class; and chips within clothing, used to find children and keep track of them for safety measures. As can be seen in the many reasons, ideas, and explanations listed above, the Chinese education system is superior to the American education system in many ways, and should be considered to replace it.
https://www.ednewsdaily.com/five-major-differences-between-the-chinese-and-american- education-system/ This source is from Ed News Daily, an educational new website. The article is entitled, “Five Major Differences Between the Chinese and American Education System.” It is an informational article, not meant to persuade or sell, or even promote their website. There is no author name included.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLsHI8aV0g This source is a YouTube video is from the Wall Street Journal, a credible and well known news outlet.
https://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/10-major-challenges-facing-public-schools This source is from public school review and the article is titled “10 major challenges facing public schools.” This article is to inform you on some issues public schools face. The author is Grace Chen. https://www.open.edu/openlearn/education/brief-introduction-the-chinese-education-system This source is from a website “Open Learn” which is from the Open University.
