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"# Why the perceived weaknesses of American education are actually its strengths. # How reform proponents, business executives, and politicians have misjudged American education. # Why China and other nations in Asia are actually reforming their systems to be more like their American counterparts. # What really matters for an education system and what really counts as educational excellence."
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"To fulfill its desire to become an "innovation-based" economy, China needs a diversity of creative and innovative talents. China has fully recognized the damages of the gaokao and has been working on curriculum and pedagogical reforms in order to mitigate the negative consequences of gaokao. It has also been trying to reform the gaokao. But until now it has not touched the root cause on a national scale"
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Google China: Flowers Laid On Google Sign In Beijing (Photos) | NowPublic News Coverage - 0 views
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"Yesterday, Google announced its plans to re-route Chinese traffic to avoid censorship. Google will no longer censor google.cn. Instead, Google will now redirect all Chinese traffic to google.com.hk as a loophole around censorship imposed by Chinese government where it is no longer legally obliged to censor its content. * Google Reroutes China Traffic to Avoid Censorship In a statement, Google said it has discovered that the Gmail accounts of some of the human rights activists in China were being "routinely" accessed by third parties. "
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Vision Statement: Mapping the Social Internet - Harvard Business Review - 1 views
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Part III: How do these problems relate to activities across different areas of life - not only in formal educational institutions per se, but also in informal contexts and activities of learning? Using fresh data from the Trendstream Global Web Index-a recurring survey of more than 50,000 users of social platforms in 18 markets-we mapped by country how people are sharing information about themselves online. We looked at five broadcast behaviors: blogging, managing a social-network profile, sharing photos, sharing videos, and microblogging.
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Great graphic of how various countries across the world are using social Internet or social media. Includes China and the U.S.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Anger in China over web censorship - 1 views
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Melanie/ Mary (filtering) "China has delayed a plan requiring all new computers sold in the country to be equipped with internet filtering software. The Green Dam software has become a major topic of discussion in the blogosphere."
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The Green Dam ? a software proposed in June 2009 to be installed on all Chinese computers - plan has stalled. people can get through it. Intention was to block pornographic content and allow "comprehensive net surveillance"
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China defends screening software - 0 views
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All computers sold in China - even those that are imported - will have to be pre-installed with the "Green Dam Youth Escort" software.
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The aim is to build a healthy and harmonious online environment that does not poison young people's minds, according to the directive.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China's internet 'spin doctors' - 0 views
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"Comments, rumours and opinions can be quickly spread between internet groups in a way that makes it hard for the government to censor. So instead of just trying to prevent people from having their say, the government is also attempting to change they way they think. To do this, they use specially trained - and ideologically sound - internet commentators. "