It comes down to Chinese people displaying a psychological concept known as a "growth mindset" at school ... while Americans only display this mindset in sports. For the most part, American children ...

Jin Shanmu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, ...

Via Prufrock (subscribe for free!), here’s a story about how a group of Chinese math and science teachers came into a British school for four weeks, and taught the kids there the Chinese way: 12 hours ...

Teachers today face a conundrum: they lack the hours needed to help students master requisite proficiencies. This burden is amplified for those teaching language immersion classes. Some split their ...

Hite Elementary is offering Chinese as its world language focus this year. Hite Elementary administrators hope Chinese classes will improve math performance. Last year the school implemented the ...

Chinese-American kids do better at math than other American kids, starting their first days in kindergarten ahead of their peers and increasing their lead as the years go by. How so? One oft-cited ...

As a Chinese-Filipino, I celebrate the fact that the Chinese New Year is finally recognized as an official Philippine holiday. The Filipinos and the Chinese have had trade and social relations since ...

Last week, we looked at the question of whether the Chinese have a genetic advantage over Filipinos in terms of math ability. The answer, of course, is no, as revealed by studies that showed that, ...

In these politically correct times, it is still acceptable to use the term “Chinese math.” It’s not a negative comment about ethnic Chinese, but describes the sham logic seen in poorly thought out ...