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Stadler's Education Guide (To Shanghai) (Paperback)
by John Stadler
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Author: John Stadler
Publisher: 中国大百科全书出版社/Encyclopedia of China Publishing House
Pub. in: March, 2006
ISBN: 7500074735
Pages: 282
Measurements: 10.2 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
Origin of product: China
Order code: BA00998
Other information: ISBN13: 9787500074731
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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
Fun, friendly and professional Stadler's Education Guide is the complete handbook for the discriminating parent. It is the first comprehensive, authoritative and consumer-driven guide in China that is independent from schools (no school advertising is accepted). Everything you need to know to start making the right choice for your child, in 300 pages packed with extensive school reviews, maps, articles, highlights and insider advice.
(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:
Expatriates 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.
Contents:
Introduction
Articles ACADEMICS
Rigor or Rigor Mortis? It’s All Academic by John Stadler
IB or Not IB? That is the Question by Dan Ouyang
Education Theory Meets Preschool Reality by Jennifer Sac
The Road to Bilingualism by Ilan Carmel
Getting into Harvard by John Stadler
English as a Second Language by Jennifer Sachs
Special Education in China by Linda Schueler
Moral Development... in a Secular World by John Stadler
Teaching Creativity by John Stadler
Model Students
Small is Beautiful by Dan Ouyang and Naudia Lou
Knowing Students Well by John Stadler
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
Good Leaders - A Rare Breed by John Stadler
The Law Comes to Town by John Stadler
The Right Stuff - Good Teachers in China by John Stadler
Bang for the Buck by John Stadler
Place and Space by John Stadler
Mr. Bus Driver by Vivian Tse
TERNATIVE PATHS
Gap Year - The Road Less Traveled by John Stadler
Little Red Schoolhouse - Kids in Chinese School by John Stadler
Homeschooling - China’s Latest Educational Trend by Vivian Tse
LIFE IN CHINA
Experiencing Change in Shanghai by Nick Johnson
Chinese Face, Western Background by Jewel Ran
Quality Care - Getting the Best From Your Ayi by Dan Ouyang
Safe and Sound by Michael Arnold
Open All Hours - Teen Drinking in China by Daniel Allen
Managing Teenagers in China - San Wen Yi Deng by Jeff Bissell
All Smoke and No Fire by Daniel Allen
Directory
SCHOOL MAP
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS
NON-REPORTING INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS
FOREIGN (NON-ENGLISH TEACHING) SCHOOLS
CHINESE LANGUAGE PROGRAMS
Glossary
School Index
Disclosure
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Introdction
Welcome to the First Edition of the Stadler’s Education Guide.
This comprehensive Shanghai education guide is indispensable when it comes to choosing not just a school, but the right school for your kids. Over the past year, Stadler’s team of researchers has popped their heads into more classrooms, principal’s offices and student canteens than they care to remember. And the end result speaks for itself. Turning the test back onto the schools, Stadler’s Education Guide is a collection of thorough examinations and essays from just about every school under the Shanghai sun - from pre-K through Grade 12. It’s hard to be totally objective when you walk into an amazingly bright classroom with an inspiring teacher and eager, smiling students. As much as possible, we have let the facts speak for themselves. But at the end of the day, we pulled out our own microscopes to highlight exemplary and unique aspects in everything from school leadership to special education. We’ve then wrapped that up with detailed maps and Chinese addresses (for you and your taxi shifu) and topped it off with listings for Chinese language programs so we can say, very confidently, that this guide truly has something for everyone. Aside from being highly informative, the Stadler’s Education Guide is a fun read, with lots of interesting anecdotes, opinions, and tips from students, teachers,
parents and educational experts. After you’re done with the book, don’t forget to check out our website at www.stadlersguide.com.
The Stadler’s Education Guide is also a valuable tool for school teachers and administrators around Shanghai - many of whom gave up valuable time in the staff cafeteria to chat with us about the state of education around town. The challenges of running a great school are pretty much the same whoever you talk to. The Stadler’s Education Guide gives teachers and administrators the opportunity to compare notes, and check out the highly diverse and creative solutions that The Joneses’ are implementing to keep their school great. Ultimately, we hope that some of what we say will be taken away, discussed over bad instant coffee, and will be used to continue the advancement of education in Shanghai. These days, schools in China are pushing the boundaries of education and in many ways creating a new paradigm - one that is multi-lingual and multi-cultural, with traditional and progressive elements, aggressively modern in outlook, but also conservative in values and standards of excellence. The confluence of Asian educational aspirations and expectations, with the import of the best practices emerging from the West, has created a boomtown excitement. As a parent, student, teacher or administrator, it’s time to latch onto this excitement.
As the new shifu in town, I hope you enjoy the ride.
Regards, JAS
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Siekman (MSL quote), Shanghai, China
<2007-03-07 00:00>
This book turned what could have been one of the most exasperating facets of becoming an expat parent--finding a decent school for our child--into a manageable process. "Stadler's" does a good job of presenting information in a coherent format and imparting a sense of the differences between various schools.
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Kevin (MSL quote), Shanghai, China
<2007-03-07 00:00>
I had such a hard time finding good literature on the schools in Shanghai, but then I saw this book. I was skeptical at first but after reading the reviews I thought that they did a good job of evaluating schools rather than just saying how great they are all the time. This is the only book I've seen that does this in Shanghai. Highly recommend!
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Jang (MSL quote) , USA
<2007-03-07 00:00>
This book is awesome. I have looked at many many different guide books but none of them come close to how informative and wonderful this book is. I was able to choose a great school for my children, and they absolutely love their school now. Thanks to Stadler's Education Guide! I highly recommend this book to everyone!
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