Worlds apart and in a different class
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Elizabeth Truss, a member of the United Kingdom Parliament, talks with a student at a middle school in Shanghai in February. Truss led a British education delegation on visits to three schools to gain insights into the city's successful math education program. Xu Wanglin / for China Daily |
A TV documentary that followed a group of teachers from China as they imposed Chinese methods on a class of teenagers in a state school in England has re-ignited a long-standing debate, as Zhang Zhouxiang and Zhang Chunyan report from London.
In the past few decades, China's rise to international prominence has prompted questions about the merits of the national education system compared with those used in the West, and its contribution to the country's rapid development.
