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Developing and teaching a bookmaking class at Guan Ai School this past summer was an incredibly rewarding
experience for me. I love teaching and took advantage of the summer vacation to develop a ten day activity class at the school. Though I developed the curriculum, most important to the class was my partnership with two local [...]

Sara Lam and I were recently interviewed by Fred Dintenfass of eChinacities. He had some very good questions like:
“What can Americans bring to education in China?”
“What kind of cooperation do you get from the government?”
“Have you had problems with teachers who were resistant to your programs?”
Below are a few excerpts from the interview, the entirety [...]

Recently many of you on our mailing lists will have got invitations seemingly from RCEF personnel inviting you to join social networking site Goodreads. Whilst the site does offer a legitimate service, their methods of finding new users can only be classified as spam. Allow me to explain.
One of our core members within RCEF signed [...]

A very interesting article in the New York Times today, on the limitations of teaching math through real-life examples. What do you think of it?
Study suggests math teachers scrap balls and slices
By KENNETH CHANG
One train leaves Station A at 6 p.m. traveling at 40 miles per hour toward Station B. A second train leaves Station [...]

During RCEF’s Volunteer Program 2007, a local TV team came to our site in Dayang Village, Henan Province (河南大杨村) to report about the work of the RCEF volunteers. The report was aired on the local television, 漯河电视台, in a show called 关注, in the week of August 10.On July 30, it also made it to [...]

Our Volunteer Program Director Huang Zhenzhong was interviewed recently by a reporter of “Asia Calling“, an Indonesian public radio program. The report is on the inequality between rural and urban education in China. Zhenzhong is quoted as saying: “I think the urbanisation of the books is a question. I heard of some teachers, when [...]