Recently, China’s Hubei Bureau of Education Deputy Director Huang Jian has been visiting Ohio, specifically our schools, as part of the U.S.-China Administrator Shadowing Project. Earlier this week at a State Board of Education meeting he presented his observations, a collection of vague, generally feel-good platitudes that probably revealed few of his true sentiments about our education system. A delegation from Ohio will visit Hubei next year, and although their report to the local school board is likely to be similarly vague and pleasant, I imagine a first-hand visit to China’s schools will generate some interesting behind-closed-doors comments.…
