education in China

More students in Hong Kong gathered for a strike on Tuesday in an attempt to decisively kill the education program that Hong Kong recently backtracked on, and which has been described as brainwashing from communist China.

Back-to-school shopping for many rural elementary students means buying desks and chairs.

Strapped for cash, a local government in Henan Province is trying to garnish the wages of teachers to build two new schools, and the teachers aren’t happy.

Hong Kong residents marched en masse against a planned Chinese national education curriculum that many say would amount to brainwashing in schools.

Unlike in Western countries, students in China do not have the freedom to choose what they want to learn.

Dozens of young children in Beijing staged sit-in protests in front of the Beijing Education Commission building, demanding that they be allowed to go to school.

The number of college entrance exam takers in China has fallen by 1.4 million over the past four years.

A Chinese man ordered his young son to welcome Chinese New Year by doing push-ups in his underwear during a blizzard.