Education in Hong Kong
Seeing this made me look up this which led me to this:
ADDED: HK$10 million... time to cash in! Send me ten bucks, and I'll give you the name of a book that I recommended to a friend who was scoring perfect on the math section of the SAT but having trouble with the verbal section. After going through the book, she went from, if I recall correctly, somewhere in the 500's to somewhere in the 700's. I kid, I kid--no need to send money, here's the book
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I don't know what effect the book would have now. I think the test has changed considerably since my friend was in high school.
Tutors in Hong Kong are often promoted as "stars", for their personal charisma as well as their academic qualifications. They can be seen on billboards, full-page newspaper ads and TV screens in railway stations or on buses. Some of them have their own teams of stylists, fashion designers and photographers, as well as personal Web sites.[1]The most successful of them have an annual salary of HK$10 million.Wow.
ADDED: HK$10 million... time to cash in! Send me ten bucks, and I'll give you the name of a book that I recommended to a friend who was scoring perfect on the math section of the SAT but having trouble with the verbal section. After going through the book, she went from, if I recall correctly, somewhere in the 500's to somewhere in the 700's. I kid, I kid--no need to send money, here's the book
.I don't know what effect the book would have now. I think the test has changed considerably since my friend was in high school.
posted by Freeman Hunt | 12:02 PM
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That would work in the USA, but the unions would never allow it. Their socialist model is all about mediocre not meritocracy. The pay for teachers in the country is better than the pay for architects. The architects are happier because they get rewarded when they do outstanding work. The teachers union, at least here in California, are only interested in getting more money and pushing leftist politics. Merit pay is against their socialist principals.
This article by the International Socialist Review starts with paragraphs about union politics and Democratic politicians.
http://www.isreview.org/issues/34/stateofemergency.shtml
If the Catholic school system in the US was smart, a less left leaning, it would start touting the individual qualities of it's teachers like they do in Hong Kong.
PISA test? Who ever heard of these?
There is enough competition for top university slots to drive a competitive tutor industry in the US--and the unions could do nothing to stop it!
A lot of parents are willing to pay well for extra-curricular tutoring for the SAT/ACT and other resume-building credentials.
It truly is a matter of finding the right marketing approach.
If you really want to improve the quality of teachers you have to raise the minimum SAT scores required to apply to any school of education. Or, only hire those who have worked in their chosen fields for at least 10 years out in the "real" world.
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