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BEIJING, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Harvard, Stanford and other top U.S. colleges say they're actively recruiting China's best high school students and offering them full scholarships.
Recruiting the best Chinese students will help elite U.S.colleges maintain international dominance, especially in math and science, said William Fitzsimmons, Harvard's admissions dean.
"There are no quotas, no limits on the number of Chinese students we might take," Fitzsimmons told more than 300 students during a recent visit to a high school in Beijing.
Somehow I doubt those Chinese students are busy putting together PowerPoint presentations or posters in anticipation of the 21st century. They're too busy working on math and science skills the world needs right now.
Source: United Press International
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The horrifying thing is that when people watch Two Million Minutes they don't seem to notice that the Indian & Chinese kids in the movie don't have SMARTBoards in their classrooms and aren't using their home computers to put together PowerPoints.
A friend told me that so far this year his middle school child has designed a business card AND a baseball card. This was mid-October.
AND it would be one thing if these kids were getting instruction in the graphic arts. But they're not. The school just turns them loose with Word Art or whatever other software the district has "acquired" (ever notice how districts acquire stuff instead of buying it?) and the kids do whatever comes naturally (which is using a LOT of Word Art & moving banners....)
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Honors students at the high school are doing posters for English class.
I think they have a choice between writing a paper or doing a poster.
Again: no instruction in graphic arts design is provided.
There were projectors & laptops in every elementary classroom in Singapore. For the teachers. Computer labs were very minimal, part of the library. At one secondary school , the principal told us that they subsidize internet at home for students that can't afford it (less than 5%).
A friend tells me:
IB chemistry, 10th grade.
Make a trifold about your favorite element.
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