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Music class, like art class, is a rarity in rural China. The Guan Ai School students are lucky to have music class once a week. However, with little exception, teaching does not address any music concepts or learning beyond singing. The textbooks are basically “song books”. That’s why we welcomed the chance to have Music [...]

This post was written by RCEF Monitoring and Evaluation Summer Intern Shang Xinyuan, a master’s student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Education. At the end of June before the government’s final exams, RCEF administered special tests aimed at evaluating students’ skills in critical thinking, communications, and creativity. To prepare for traditional tests, the [...]

Students at Guan Ai take exams twice a semester, a mock at half-term and a real one at the end of term. While these exams do a decent job of tracking progress of students, they do have their inadequacies. Much of the content on the exams can be mastered by repeating similar questions ad nauseum [...]