Different Textbooks of Public Schools
editCurriculums:
editUnlike private schools have freedom of deciding their curriculums to adapt to the international trends of education, the public high schools, under the regulation of Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China, have the fixed , subjects. The main target of public education in China is to help the students score well in their college entrance examination. The department of education make all policies related to how the public school should work and set up goals for all the public schools to reach[1]. However, even with the same, the actual textbooks are varied based between provinces, for instance, there are textbooks from People's Education Press and Zhejiang Education Press.
The provinces use People's Education Press
editHigh school textbooks in Chongqing, Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Gansu, Hebei, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places are all from People's Education Press.
The provinces use Zhejiang Education Press
editThe ones used in Taizhou, Zhejiang are all from Zhejiang Education Press.
Reasons for different textbooks:
editAccording to the actual situation of the province's educational development, each province adopts different modes of education and propositions for the college entrance examination questions. In particular, the economic development in the western region is slow, the allocation of education resources in basic schools is not balanced, basic schools in remote mountainous areas in rural areas have poor educational conditions, educational resources are backward, the economic advantages of improving the quality of education and teaching, and the lack of motivation behind the support of educational resources are serious. All these factors restricted the development of basic education. To be fair for using different textbooks and different educational conditions, Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China adopts different models of the National College Entrance Examination.
The National College Entrance Examination(高考):
editAs of the 2018, the National College Entrance Examination(also known as GaoKao), there are four types of college entrance examination questions and proposition models in all provinces and cities across the country. There are a total of national papers 1, 2, and 3 and semi-autonomous propositions (Hainan Province) and autonomous proposition forms. Among them, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, The five provinces and cities in Zhejiang fully implement autonomous propositions.
Controversy in Public Schools
editGrade Segregation:
editThough each province in China adopts different modes of propositions for the college entrance examination according to the actual situation of the province's educational development, the grade segregation in public schools is still the debate of every year.
Grade segregation is intended to split students with good performance, average performance, and bad performance into different classes with different teachers. Hence, it becomes easier for the teachers to apply the optimal education according to the current academic situations of students.
Shortage of Sleep:
editExcluding elementary schools, middle schools and high schools often have night section, where students go to school averagely from 7am to 10pm.
Public schools in China have their fixed schedule determined by Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China, according to South China Morning Post, 60% of students age from 6 to 17 do not have more than eight hours of sleep.
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edit- ^ "中华人民共和国教育部政府门户网站". www.moe.gov.cn. Retrieved 2021-09-24.