Since implementation of reform and opening-up policy, China's teacher education has got significant success on policy design, legislation process, theory research, system reform, model innovation and teaching qualification system building. Teachers' educational background level has been increased. Teachers' professional ethics and teaching…

Argues that the senior middle school's sole responsibility of sending qualified new students to a university goes against basic Marxist principles of integrating education with productive labor. Questions the future of senior middle schools in China and their policies. (BSR)

Environmental education in middle school natural science courses is based on integrating environmental knowledge into natural science education. Therefore, environmental education objectives should be set as an extension of the objectives for natural science education. However, in order to reach the objectives laid out for environmental education…

States that female students through childhood and primary school perform better than male students until the later stages of junior middle school. Explores discrepancies between male and female pupils in the areas of scholastic performance, psychological and physiological development, personality, and reception of social information and family…

The author provides a few personal impressions from his visit to the People's Republic of China concerning middle school science education, particularly the physics curriculum; the typical, working-week schedule of a physics teacher; the status and morale of teachers, in general; and the Chinese viewpoint of the examination process and gender…