Yong Zhao is a respected education scholar who has been a fierce critic of high-stakes standardized testing, both in China and the United States. Zhao, the presidential chair and director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the University of Oregon’s College of Education, has written a new book entited “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World” that my colleague, Post education writer (and former China correspondent) Jay Mathews, said in a columnwas “the best I have ever read on Chinese schools.
The book, released Sept. 15, analyzes the success of Chinese schools and finds that U.S. education reformers are drawing the wrong lessons. He issues a warning to U.S. education reformers about operating under what he calls “the spell of authoritarianism.” Yong Zhao gave me permission to publish the introduction to his book. Here it is:
A very interesting commentary about Common Core...read at the link but the following paragraph sums up common core in a simple but very profound way...
Americans failed to recognize those benign-looking tests as a Trojan horse—with a dangerous ghost inside. That ghost, authoritarianism, sees education as a way to instill in all students the same knowledge and skills deemed valuable by the authority.
http://wapo.st/1pioMV7
The book, released Sept. 15, analyzes the success of Chinese schools and finds that U.S. education reformers are drawing the wrong lessons. He issues a warning to U.S. education reformers about operating under what he calls “the spell of authoritarianism.” Yong Zhao gave me permission to publish the introduction to his book. Here it is:
A very interesting commentary about Common Core...read at the link but the following paragraph sums up common core in a simple but very profound way...
Americans failed to recognize those benign-looking tests as a Trojan horse—with a dangerous ghost inside. That ghost, authoritarianism, sees education as a way to instill in all students the same knowledge and skills deemed valuable by the authority.
http://wapo.st/1pioMV7
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