Written by: Dan Maas
9/23/2009 

A new book showed up in my mailbox yesterday... Dr. Yong Zhao writes from his personal experience being educated in China and now serves as a distinguished professor at Michigan State University.  His message takes on the fallacies of strict adherence to measuring the success of education only through test scores.  He describes the advantages of the American education and how China and many other countries whose test scores are superior to ours... are in fact working to emulate our method.  But far from advocating for the status quo, he shares his views on what we need to do to revamp our system to be prepare students for a globalized economy.  He cherishes the individual and the independence that are hallmarks of being an American.  He advocates for supporting a passion for learning... well, he tells it better than I can.  Here is a video:

http://www.mobilelearninginstitute.org/21stcenturyeducation/films/film-yong-zhao.html

Here is his blog:

http://zhao.educ.msu.edu/category/blog/

Here is his book...

http://shop.ascd.org/productdisplay.cfm?productid=109076

I am enjoying this read very much.

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