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Stadler's Education Guide (To Beijing) (Paperback)
by Stadler, J.
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Author: Stadler, J.
Publisher: 中国大百科全书出版社/Encyclopedia of China Publishing House
Pub. in: April, 2006
ISBN: 7500075103
Pages: 281
Measurements: 10.3 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
Origin of product: China
Order code: BA00999
Other information: ISBN 13: 9787500075103
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An in-depth review of 35 international and bilingual schools loads of insider stories, expert advice, maps, tips and fun! The complete handbook for the discriminating parent. |
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“It's a consumer guide - our goal is to help you make the right choice, not convince you to attend one school or another.” - John Stadler
The Stadler's Education Guide is the first consumer-based education publication for Beijing. The book provides detailed and authoritative reviews of 35 international and bilingual schools coupled with information submitted by the schools themselves. Based on extensive interviews with principals, teachers, students, and families, the Stadler's team provides readers with a frank and unbiased picture of the unique characteristics and culture of each school. Stadler's does not accept advertising from schools covered in the Guide. In addition, you will find information in this guide that is generally unavailable elsewhere: "Number, type, and training of teachers" Nationality breakdown of student population "Special needs and ESL policies" Full description of the school's culture.
(Quoting from The Publisher)
Editor's Note
SEG’s foremost goal is to provide an authoritative and independent guide to education. This task was complicated, first, because there is no precedent for “editorially independent” journalism in China. By not accepting any advertising from schools that are covered in this Guide, we have tried to proscribe the relationship between advertising and editorial content.
Second, as an investor in education as well as an educator, I have prior relationships with some schools, either as a teacher or an investor. While these prior relationships allow me to better understand the school environment as an insider, it has also opened the Guide to the potential for a conflict of interest. Since the founding of the SEG, therefore, I have abstained from any review of Eton Academy, where I am still an investor, as well as any comparison of Eton with other schools. Nevertheless, some schools are still concerned that my relationship with Eton will necessarily bias the reporting on other schools. I will leave this for the readers to decide, based on our reporting. On balance, I think that Eton has been marginally disadvantaged by the Guide, since had I not been an investor they would have received much more attention and coverage.
Target readers:
Expatrates in China.
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John Staler (Editor-in-Chief) has been involved in schools in many capacities: a teacher, parent, school founder, school council member, school investor, and an educational content and software developer. His career includes founding the Francis W. Parker Charter School, a leading charter high school in Massachusetts, (www.parker.org), teaching middle and high school mathematics, for which he received the NBPTS Master Teacher certification (www.nbpts.org), as well as managing seed capital financing for many educational startups in China and the West. Stadler graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received his master's degree and ABD on his PhD in public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
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From the Editors
Welcome to the Stadler's Education Guide - the first consumer-based education publication for Beijing and Shanghai. The two books provide detailed and authoritative reviews of approximately 70 international and bilingual schools in two of China's hottest cities coupled with information submitted by the schools themselves. The information you find in these guides is generally unavailable elsewhere:
Number, type, training of teachers
Nationality breakdown of student population
Special needs and ESL policies
Full description of the schools culture
Well, it's available but not after hours of scouring the internet and phone calling. We've gone ahead and done the grunt work for you and though you might not find everything you need to know before making a decision, it's a good start.
So how should you make the big decision? Read the first half of the book - a veritable how-to on school comparison and selection. We've interviewed (ok, ok, pestered) countless school administrators, parents and students to bring you articles covering everything from curriculum to school life to how a school is (ahem... should be) run.
Education is complicated and subjective; Stadler's gives you the tools to ask tough questions and differentiate between important and superficial attributes of the schools. It's a consumer guide - our goal is to help you make the right choice, not convince you to attend one school or another. In fact, we don't accept any school advertising, since we don't want to bias our reporting.
The biggest problem with school literature is - how can we put this delicately? - it's pretty boring stuff. Sure there are people who are interested in the nuances of pedagogical developmental psychobabble, but for the rest of us, watching paint dry is minimally less interesting. So we did our best to keep it lively with tons of pictures, great cartoons, sidebars on all sorts of quality-of-life topics for expats, and curious factoids about education. If nothing else, its great stuff for starting arguments while waiting for your children to come in from the playground, or dropping expertly into college interviews.
Oh, and one more thing - this is the website. We've been so busy researching for the books that there's not much here now, but we hope you will check back and give us your comments, share your opinions, and debunk the latest rumors on your schools. We also hope to post student artwork and essays, pictures of major events, and lots of novel ideas for how to get into great colleges without ever doing any homework.
Well, maybe not... but we do want to hear from you.
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A mother, Beijing, China
<2007-03-07 00:00>
After recently moving to Beijing from the states I was not sure how I could choose an appopriate school for my children, who were totally new to the chinese culture and environment. Stadler's guide differed from the others with its detailed description of each school's culture and programs. It truly helped us make the right decision for our children. Highly recommended!
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Hans (MSL quote), Beijing, China
<2007-03-07 00:00>
As my family and I recently moved to Beijing, this guide has proved to be essential when chosing schools for my two children. As a result, they both love their school, and I would highly recommend this education guide. It's by far the best guide I could find!
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Alice (MSL quote), Beijing, China
<2007-03-07 00:00>
I just recently moved to Beijing when my friend gave me this guide as a present. Unlike the other magazines I had seen before, this guide actually made schools seem different. It really seemed honest in its evaluation and did not just sing everyone's praises.
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