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The AI College Boom Is Outrunning the Teachers Who Have to Make It Work
In September 2026, the busiest thing on Chinese campuses was not opening ceremonies. It was plaque unveilings. Northwestern Polytechnical University launched a School of Flexible Electronics. Xiamen University unveiled a School of Intelligent Manufacturing. Nanjing Medical University’s Changzhou campus launched six innovation platforms at once. Earlier, Huazhong University of Science and Technology applied to add four majors, including Embodied Intelligence and Brain-Computer Science and Technology. Communication University of China sought to add Game Science and Technology, Esports, and other programs. Harbin Institute of Technology, Beihang University, and seven other schools introduced embodied intelligence majors. Anhui Normal University, a teacher-training school, launched three new engineering colleges aimed at artificial intelligence.
By Jin2 months ago in Education
They Didn’t Get Into Peking University. Now They Work There.
“Our students didn’t get into Peking University or Tsinghua. But they can go work at Peking University and Tsinghua.” That sentence comes from a teacher at a vocational school in Henan. On the world skills stage, Henan Chemical Technician College presented its electron microscope technology program. It is small. It is also the only one of its kind in China. The school says students are often booked by employers in their sophomore year. Over 101 graduates have entered Peking University.
By Jin2 months ago in Education
The Rosenthal Effect: How a Teacher's Belief Becomes a Student's Reality
Imagine being told, in confidence, that a few children in your class are about to bloom. A test has identified them. You're asked to keep the names to yourself.
By Lucy Guo2 months ago in Education
Who Really Runs China’s Schools? The 2,898 People Who Never Taught
Who really runs China’s grassroots schools? The 2,898 people in charge In 2019, Beijing Normal University surveyed 2,898 education bureau directors across 26 provinces. Cheng Jianping, then a national political advisor and party secretary of the university, found the results alarming. Many grassroots education leaders had been appointed or transferred from outside education. They lacked the professional capacity to guide reform. A book by Cong Chunxia of the National Academy of Education Administration added detail: only 39.3 percent of directors had previously served as principals or deputy bureau directors. 60.7 percent came from township governments, county party committees, or county government offices. Among sitting directors, 43 percent had no education work experience.
By Jin2 months ago in Education
My Daughter’s Classroom Was 20 Degrees. The Teacher Told Her to Wear More.
The Vent When my daughter came out of the school gate, she had her zipper pulled up to her chin. She pushed her hand into my pocket. Her fingertips were cold. The afternoon sun had gone weak, and the maple leaves along the fence had begun to curl at the edges.
By Jin2 months ago in Education
I Am Healed from You, Not by You: The History of the Soul’s Conflagration and the Genesis of Interior Sovereignty
The agony of the human soul is never a mere transient emotion; it is an anthropological struggle spanning human history—a clash between the predatory desire to subjugate the other and an indestructible interior force that refuses annihilation, choosing instead to be reborn from the ash. In the human theater, no tragedy is crueler than that enacted beneath the roof of a sacred covenant: where a home ceases to be a sanctuary and becomes an altar of psychological execution; where a husband systematically immolates the soul and feelings of his wife before the eyes of their young children—innocent witnesses groomed to normalize an atmosphere of humiliation.
By Noor Kids Academy2 months ago in Education
From School to Penitentiary
Everyone starts out the same way. Every child that is born matters because life is precious. It’s called the sanctity of all life.
By Elizabeth Woods2 months ago in Education
We’re Raising the First Generation That Can’t Read Past 400 Words
The vanishing reader: why Gen Z’s test scores are falling In 2025, the OECD released its latest PISA results. Reading, mathematics, and science scores among 15-year-olds in most Western nations fell again. The decline started around 2012. After the pandemic, it sped up. Reading took the hardest hit. PISA tracks a group it calls rushed readers. These students skim questions, do not finish texts, and guess. In 2018, 6.6 percent of students fell into that group. By 2025, 11.4 percent. The number nearly doubled.
By Jin2 months ago in Education
The 23rd Floor: A Medical Student’s Death and the System With No Exit
Around 1 a.m. on September 15, 2026, at the Baiyun Campus of Southern Medical University, a 23-year-old student in the eight-year clinical medicine program fell from the 23rd floor of a dormitory building.
By Jin2 months ago in Education
The Architecture of the Lost Soul: Why Modern Parenting Broke the Human Spirit, and What the Ancient Sages Knew
A child sits in the corner of a sunlit café, fingers gliding across a glass screen with intuitive precision. The silence at the table is pristine. The parents exchange an exhausted glance of relief. Order has been preserved; peace has been purchased.
By Noor Kids Academy2 months ago in Education
The Relational Ontology of Personhood. AI-Generated.
Core Thesis Reality is intelligible through ordered relation. To identify anything as a determinate thing is to locate it within distinctions, boundaries, conditions, and modes of relation that make it the kind of thing it is. A thing is not understood merely by naming that it exists. It is understood by asking what it is, where it exists, when it exists, how it exists, what relations make that mode of existence possible, and whether its mode of being rises to the level of personhood.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast2 months ago in Education
What Morgan Freeman Never Said About Teacher Pay
The red pen Clarksdale, Mississippi. Four in the afternoon. The sun hung over the river, yellow and heavy. Sarah Wade closed the last student notebook and set her red pen on the desk. The ink tube showed through the plastic. Half gone.
By Jin2 months ago in Education