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The Diplomat: How Shanghai Schools Beat Them All
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Our own Beijing biases aside, it seems that Shanghai has a number of things going for it - i.e. a better system of roads, superior customer service, generally tastier cuisine - when stacked up against its Great Northern Rival (namely, us).
This list now apparently includes a far better school system - one so good, in fact, that it's now being touted as the best in the world.
A recent blog post on The Diplomat by Jiang Xueqin (a deputy principal at Peking University High School and former journalist, filmmaker and UN press officer) describes how and why Shanghai's school system has come out on top of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD's, Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) list each year since 2009:
Nations such as South Korea, Finland, and Singapore have traditionally topped the rankings, but, apparently, even they are no match for Shanghai, which shoved the others into lower positions in its very first year of participation in the programme, in 2009.
