{"id":2910,"date":"2014-09-05T19:55:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T19:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2014-09-05T19:55:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T19:55:53","slug":"chinas-education-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/chinas-education-gap","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Education Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

By HELEN GAOSEPT. 4, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

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Credit Dom McKenzie
\nBEIJING \u2014 Every September, the campuses of Peking and Tsinghua Universities, dubbed the Harvard and M.I.T. of China, brim with bright-eyed new students, the winners of China\u2019s cutthroat education system. These young men and women possess the outlook of cosmopolitan youth worldwide: sporting designer clothes and wielding smartphones, they share experiences of foreign travel and bond over common fondness for Western television shows such as \u201cThe Big Bang Theory\u201d and \u201cSherlock.\u201d<\/p>\n

They are destined for bright futures: In a few decades, they will fill high-powered positions in government and become executives in state banks and multinational companies. But their ever-expanding career possibilities belie the increasingly narrow slice of society they represent.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s state education system, which offers nine years of compulsory schooling and admits students to colleges strictly through exam scores, is often hailed abroad as a paradigm for educational equity. The impression is reinforced by Chinese students\u2019 consistently stellar performance in international standardized tests. But this reputation is a myth.<\/p>\n

While China has phenomenally expanded basic education for its people, quadrupling its output of college graduates in the past decade, it has also created a system that discriminates against its less wealthy and poorly connected citizens, thwarting social mobility at every step with bureaucratic and financial barriers.<\/p>\n

A huge gap in educational opportunities between students from rural areas and those from cities is one of the main culprits. Some 60 million students in rural schools are \u201cleft-behind\u201d children, cared for by their grandparents as their parents seek work in faraway cities. While many of their urban peers attend schools equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and well-trained teachers, rural students often huddle in decrepit school buildings and struggle to grasp advanced subjects such as English and chemistry amid a dearth of qualified instructors.<\/p>\n

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