Challenges of Reform

The National College Entrance Examination (NCEE)dictates how almost every facet of China'seducational system is administered. As early asprimary school students are forced to become lockedin intense competition battle hordes ofexaminations cope with insufferable pressure andabandon childhood. Inequity between urban and ruraleducation is spiraling out of control. Cries forchange to a more quality education that willrelieve the students' burden are in the air but theyare being met with fierce resistance by those whoclaim NCEE meritocracy provides their only hope.Many people are cognizant of the serious problemsfacing China's educational system but very few seemable to describe how they can be resolved. This paperwill set-up and bring-down the most difficult andunsolvable problems of Chinese education. New andoriginal ideas are going to be injected to replacethe shortsighted and misguided suggestions currentlyproffered and these ideas will explain exactly howChina can create an educational system that willbenefit all students equally.