SHANGHAI, CHINA: Shanghai test scores have everyone asking: How did students do it?

By Ariel Zirulnick, Correspondent
posted December 9, 2010 at 5:14 pm EST

When the results of an international education assessment put Shanghai and several other Asian participants ahead of the US and much of Western Europe, many Americans were shocked. “Top test scores from Shanghai stun educators” read the headline in The New York Times.

Meanwhile, many education and Asia experts felt vindicated. After years of saying that China was rapidly catching up or surpassing the US and the rest of the West in education, here was hard proof...

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