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For kicks, allow me to begin by suggesting that you link to the following video, which addresses the intelligence of students at our 25th best university in the U.S., UCLA (the students are being questioned on campus about the Middle East): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_2SbkRybBk My first post which addressed the recent Amy Chua book controversy, claimed that what we learn from the book is...
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The twitter feed shows hundreds (or thousands, I didn’t count) of anti-Chua posts. Amy Chua simply follows the Chinese model of parental discipline but is evidently at the extreme end of the spectrum.The issue is not Chua, but the China culture and system itself; China is the country that challenges our nation’s future more than any other, and the differences in education...
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I recently viewed a fascinating Chinese documentary, “Please Vote for Me” (available on Netflix, click here to watch instantly). This documentary’s true story aroused my thinking about democracy, competitiveness, values and culture in modern China. Filmed in a real school and in the homes of several students, it takes place when several kids in a class of third graders (10...
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Controversy: China and U.S. Education Values China is the country that likely challenges our nation’s future more than any other, with education goals that are likely considered critical! Meanwhile, our U.S. may have failed to recognize the importance of improving our own educational status with regard to ‘The Future of America’! Within the education sphere are two...
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35th Anniversary of Gartner Inc.'s Founding: Gartner Inc. (originally called Gartner Group) was born on April 1, 1979, together with a ... [read more]
Oh My Darling Clementine: My three year-old grand-daughter Clementine is very smart. While she's never taken any piano lessons ... [read more]
Social Networking May Be Bad for Your Health: What might have once been called 'intellectual networking' seems to have been displaced by today's ... [read more]
Genius Economist Suggests Solution to Housing Problem: John Geanakoplos is James Tobin professor of economics at Yale University and one of the founders of Ellington Capital Management, ... [read more]
Which Executive Education School Is Tops?: Interestingly, executive education rankings by various publications produce results which seem all over the map. In fact, the ... [read more]