Many students in the United States would say that they excel in their academic life and view receiving a B or an A as those excelling standards. They are even students who believe that our country is superior in education and that most other countries receive our hand-me-down. But what if we took a student from the United States and send them to study in China? It is easy to just to send a smart average Joe over there. So let’s take it a step further and imagine if we took a group of students who make up the top 5% of our local Paramount High School.
In their first year of high school they would be separated into two groups based on a single standardized test. “As space in the best senior secondary schools and universities are limited. Students who desire higher education must take two very difficult tests, each only
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It could be easily compared to a country that was known for its education; The United States. There’s many differences between both the two countries, for example, their success rate of students differ. Each country has a high attendance rate for high schools, but completely differ from college. For The United States, 52.5 percent of students who complete high school will attend a university afterwards,this is information provided by the United States government census. As opposed to china attendance rate of 60% provided by The New York Times editor Dav Levin. China education is booming and demonstrates the attention they give towards their people. But due to their high population China is being forced to create more institutions for their future generations. “The number of higher-education institutions in China has more than doubled in the past decade, from 1,022 to 2,263” (Levin). Having established more institution for their people China will continue to strive in education. China is building scholars for the future while the rest of us follow to catch