Anonymous wrote:I was a scientist abroad and involved in hiring panels. The quality of education in developing nations is highly over-rated. In general, very hard to find scientists with critical thinking skills.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
OP.
Please.
Believe me.
There are thousands and thousands of extremely rigorous STEM-heavy school all over Asia, in China, Taiwan, Singapore, S. Korea, Japan, etc. Their students run rings around our students.
China probably bought this out of curiosity, to find out what a highly-reputed STEM high school in the US was doing. And maybe they'll chuckle a bit and pass it around to friends for a laugh.
If you've been living under a rock for a generation, and you somehow still think the US is in any way competitive in the global K-12 education market...
... you have to wake up to the dire state of US education today. TJ may be among the best STEM schools we have, but it's certainly not special in Asia.
The US has world-class graduate institutions, that are extremely well-funded compared to those in other countries. This is why you see a brain drain from other countries to the US at the graduate level. Not really before that, except for some well-heeled families who believe that sending their kids to high school or undergrad here will get them an easier spot at Harvard Medical School.
- Asian.
Actually, international schools, even international branches of high-performing UK/US schools (like the overseas branches of Dulwich College), are a rapidly expanding industry in China and across Asia.
I'm an American teacher at one of the many international schools in Singapore. We have 2000+ students, most of whom are Asian. There are plenty of Asian parents eager to pay $$$$ for a Western education.
Anonymous wrote:
OP.
Please.
Believe me.
There are thousands and thousands of extremely rigorous STEM-heavy school all over Asia, in China, Taiwan, Singapore, S. Korea, Japan, etc. Their students run rings around our students.
China probably bought this out of curiosity, to find out what a highly-reputed STEM high school in the US was doing. And maybe they'll chuckle a bit and pass it around to friends for a laugh.
If you've been living under a rock for a generation, and you somehow still think the US is in any way competitive in the global K-12 education market...
... you have to wake up to the dire state of US education today. TJ may be among the best STEM schools we have, but it's certainly not special in Asia.
The US has world-class graduate institutions, that are extremely well-funded compared to those in other countries. This is why you see a brain drain from other countries to the US at the graduate level. Not really before that, except for some well-heeled families who believe that sending their kids to high school or undergrad here will get them an easier spot at Harvard Medical School.
- Asian.
tAnonymous wrote:If FCPS can make an easy $3.6M by selling a copy of plans that they already have, good for them. I don't see the problem.
Anonymous wrote:FCPS has had a partnership with the Chinese govt for years. They used to fly FCPS AAP principals over there to instruct China on how to build gifted programs like our AAP program, a little over a decade ago.
Was this part of it?