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New Courses at Dadong Primary School

Teachers and RCEF teaching fellows at Dadong Primary School worked to develop two new courses for 5th and 6th graders. The course on thunderstorm safety was suggested after a villager was killed by lightening last month. Teaching fellows Yu Zhihua and Xia Jing have taught lessons about thunderstorm and lightening safety and have also organized [...]

Thoughts on visit to Guan Ai

中文翻译在英文后面。Yishin Khoo is the director of Research and Evaluation Committee in RCEF. In this post she shares her observations and thoughts after her visit to Guan Ai School in June.
After returning home from Guan Ai, I decided to revisit what REC can do to support the Integrated Rural Education Program (IREP) and refine its [...]

Fruits of their Labor

This semester, students in grades three through six began tending their own vegetable garden plots behind Guan AI School. They made records of plant growth and took responsibility for weeding and watering during recesses. Their hard work paid off in the last week of school when they harvested their tomatoes, pumpkins, peppers, and lettuce. [...]

Interviews with other Non-profit NGOs

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School systems in the poorer areas of the United States face challenges that are reminiscent of those in rural China; high drop out rates, weak academic performances, a dearth of teaching talent and leadership expertise, insufficient material resources and problems within families and communities that adversely affect students’ well-being and achievements. In the US., [...]

Guan Ai Visitations

(中文翻译在英文后面)Guan Ai received a steady stream of RCEF volunteers and friends as visitors in June. Since the RCEF community is wide spread around the world, this was the first time many of the visitors had been to a RCEF program site in rural China.
Translation Committee Director Hua Zhenyu arrived with an armful of science books [...]

Merrybelle’s Storybook Project: Part 3

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Merrybelle Guo, a student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, received a grant to travel to China and create storybooks with students and teachers at RCEF’s Guan Ai Elementary School. This is the third in a series of posts about her experience. Previous posts can be found through the following links: part 1, part [...]

Merrybelle’s Storybook Project: Part 2

Merrybelle Guo, a student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, received a grant to travel to China and create storybooks with students and teachers at RCEF’s Guan Ai Elementary School. This is the second in a series of posts about her experience. The first part can be found here.

I suppose I should begin this [...]