From the controversy of tiger mothers, the shame of wearing a green scarf, to the young political prodigy causing a storm online. This year taught us all that education was still a top trending subject throughout 2011.Click on the small images above to see who made the cut in our Year in Review.
"Tiger Mother" became well known both in the US and China after the publication of the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, a professor of Yale University and a Chinese immigrant mother. In the book, Chua describes how she educates her two daughters in a strict "typical Chinese" way. 
The South University of Science and Technology of China (SUSTC), became the only university to recruit students through its independent exam rather than the National College Entrance Exam adopted by almost all public universities in China. 
Wuhan schoolboy Huang Yibo, 13, became an overnight sensation after blogging about watching prime time news on China Central Television since he was two years old and reading People's Daily since the age of seven because his father asked him to do so. 
The First Experimental Elementary School of Weiyang district in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, hit the headlines for requiring students with a poor performance to wear a green scarf, distinguishing them from the good performance of the red scarf, a symbol for the Young Pioneer organization. 
Dong Fan, a professor from Beijing Normal University, the director of the university’s real estate research center, refused to see any of his students who do not possess 40 million yuan by the time they are 40. Dong said people who had received high-level education should be ashamed if they do not live a wealthy life. 
The No 4 classroom building on the campus of Tsinghua University, one of China's elite colleges, took on the name of a popular clothing company, the Hong Kong-based Jeanswest Clothing in May. A golden-colored plate bearing the name of the company was affixed on to the wall of the teaching building. 
