Rural Student Nutrition Gets Attention
RCEF provides an egg a day for students at Xiaochao Primary School in rural Yongji, Shanxi Province. Another non-profit, the Rural Education Action Project, has been studying the consequences of malnutrition in rural primary school students and is also evaluating the “egg a day” project in Shaanxi Province. I wonder if their research and policy [...]
Rural Student Nutrition Gets Attention
RCEF provides an egg a day for students at Xiaochao Primary School in rural Yongji, Shanxi Province. Another non-profit, the Rural Education Action Project, has been studying the consequences of malnutrition in rural primary school students and is also evaluating the “egg a day” project in Shaanxi Province. I wonder if their research and policy [...]
When Learning Matters to Kids
Sometimes people assume RCEF promotes “American-style” education in China. However, the kind of education RCEF promotes–relevant to students’ lives, connecting of skills and knowledge to solving real world problems–is not the norm in any country. The below editorial from the New York Times describes a successful case of U.S. high school students picking the topics [...]
When Learning Matters to Kids
Sometimes people assume RCEF promotes “American-style” education in China. However, the kind of education RCEF promotes–relevant to students’ lives, connecting of skills and knowledge to solving real world problems–is not the norm in any country. The below editorial from the New York Times describes a successful case of U.S. high school students picking the topics [...]
When Learning Matters to Kids
Sometimes people assume RCEF promotes “American-style” education in China. However, the kind of education RCEF promotes–relevant to students’ lives, connecting of skills and knowledge to solving real world problems–is not the norm in any country. The below editorial from the New York Times describes a successful case of U.S. high school students picking the topics [...]
When Learning Matters to Kids
Sometimes people assume RCEF promotes “American-style” education in China. However, the kind of education RCEF promotes–relevant to students’ lives, connecting of skills and knowledge to solving real world problems–is not the norm in any country. The below editorial from the New York Times describes a successful case of U.S. high school students picking the topics [...]
Success Cases in Social Emotional Learning
RCEF strives to cultivate 5 life skills and attitudes in rural Chinese children: self-confidence, communication and leadership skills, independent thinking, empathy, and social responsibility. These sound a lot like the 5 skill areas promoted by “Social Emotional Learning (SEL)”, which you can read more about in Jay Mathew’s Washington Post education blog (below) and the [...]
Success Cases in Social Emotional Learning
RCEF strives to cultivate 5 life skills and attitudes in rural Chinese children: self-confidence, communication and leadership skills, independent thinking, empathy, and social responsibility. These sound a lot like the 5 skill areas promoted by “Social Emotional Learning (SEL)”, which you can read more about in Jay Mathew’s Washington Post education blog (below) and the [...]
Chinese Children are Creative (If Adults Let Them Be)
It’s no surprise to RCEF that Chinese children can be incredibly creative! Many past examples of the creativity of our rural students spring to mind–the artwork of Xie Laoshi’s students (see photo at right), the song and dance created by Guan Ai School’s “Little Librarians”, fifth-grader Ren Chao who turned scrap materials into all kinds [...]
Chinese Children are Creative (If Their Parents Let Them Be)
It’s no surprise to RCEF that Chinese children can be incredibly creative! Many past examples of the creativity of our rural students spring to mind–the artwork of Xie Laoshi’s students (see photo at right), the song and dance created by Guan Ai School’s “Little Librarians”, fifth-grader Ren Chao who turned scrap materials into all kinds [...]
