Editor's note:

For the past year, the issue of education in China has still been a hot topic of social concern. Green scarves, colored exercise sheets ... a series of "colored" campus phenomena have contributed to the cold violence in Chinese education. The five-bar youngster, tiger mom, wolf dad ... parents are lost in a dilemma to choose the proper path for their family's education. A number of school bus accidents caused injuries and deaths among students ... In the wake of the controversies every education issue in 2011 has left us deep in thought.

 关键词：绿领巾

'Green scarf' discrimination harms kids at a tender age
“绿领巾”歧视刺痛了孩子的幼小心灵

Instead of motivating students to achieve better grades, the green scarves visibly brandish them as underachievers. Such a humiliating tactic could damage a child's self-esteem, especially since primary school-age children are especially prone to feeling embarrassed and not wanting to the "odd one out".
绿领巾不仅没有激励学生取得更好的成绩，相反，它们成了很显眼的“差生”标签。这样带有羞辱性的做法伤害了孩子的自尊心，因为孩子读小学的时候往往都有羞耻心，都不想“落单”。[Full coverage]

Exercise sheets spark new color row
缤纷作业本 区分“好差”生

First, there was the furore over green scarves in primary schools. Now No. 39 Middle School in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, is using different colored exercise sheets to rank students. Some parents have criticized the measure, claiming it will harm less able pupils.
绿领巾一波未平，现在山东枣庄市第39中学又使用不同颜色作业本给学生排序。一些学生家长提出批评，表示如此做法会伤害学习有困难的学生。
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Child prodigy stirs up praise, doubt
天才少年网络走红 赞扬质疑飞满天

This May, a 13-year-old schoolboy who speaks and acts like a government official shot to overnight fame after Internet users latched on to his lack of childlike innocence and criticized the education system for the way he's turned out.
今年五月，一个言行举止颇有“官样”的13岁男孩一夜成名。在他身上看不到孩子的天真。网友们对此揪住不放，批评当今的教育体系成就了这样一个孩子。[Full Coverage]

'Parenting with a stick' returns with a vengeance
“棍棒教育”强势回潮

Following the roars of a "tiger mom" that stirred controversy on parenting in China, a Hong Kong businessman is promoting his "wolf dad" approach in his book "That's Why They Go to Peking University," a book touting how his "sticks make a great man" philosophy landed his three children at the prestigious university.
“虎妈”一声吼，曾在中国激起有关家庭教育的争论；“虎妈”走了，“狼爸”来了！一位香港商人自称中国“狼爸”，推出了他的教子经《所以，北大兄妹》，宣扬他“棍棒教育成就人才”的理念：用“打”的教育方式，将三个孩子送进北大。[Full Coverage]

•【速读测试】“狼爸”棍棒教育惹争议

School bus regulations draft issued
校车条例草案起征意见

School bus safety made its way into the spotlight in mid November, when a minibus crashed into a truck in rural western China, crushing 19 preschoolers to death. But such a tragedy is not the first of its kind.
11月中旬，在中国西部的一个农村，一辆幼儿园校车与卡车相撞，造成19名幼儿死亡。可是，这样的悲剧并非首例，校车安全就此进入大众视线，成为社会关注的焦点。[Full Coverage]

• 校车事故屡屡发生，孩子的安全谁来保障
• Wen vows to up school bus safety 政府出资改善校车服务

Sex education books break down barriers
性别教育教材冲破牢笼

New sex education textbooks were introduced to pupils in Shanghai on October 24, 2011 after numerous debates on early-age sex education in China.
国内有关早期性教育的争论早就屡见不鲜了。2011年10月24日，新一套性别教育教材在上海一所小学正式投入使用。

The August introduction of sex education textbooks in Beijing triggered a furious debate among parents and educators, as the books described sex in a direct fashion.
今年8月，北京曾推出性教育教材，因为其中对性知识的介绍过于直白，该教材在家长和教育工作者中引发了一场激烈的辩论。[Full Coverage]

China enhances calligraphy education
教育部要求增书法课

In a notice issued on the MOE website August 26, students in grades three to six will have one hour of calligraphy class every week, and senior high schools should set up calligraphy as an optional course. Primary and secondary schools should also introduce various after-school activities on calligraphy.
根据8月26日教育部网站公布的指导意见，三至六年级的小学生，每周要安排一课时的书法课，普通高中应设置与书法有关的选修课程，中小学校还可在形式多样的课外活动中开展书法教育。[Full coverage]

Disabled boy achieves dream of college
无脚男孩终圆大学梦

The perseverance of a Shaanxi boy whose legs were amputated at the knee, touched the hearts of netizens at this year's national college entrance examination.
今年的高考，一个双腿截肢的陕西无脚男孩凭借着不屈的毅力，给网民的内心带来了震撼。
Everybody who sees Li Wei for the first time is surprised to find that he can easily play tennis or climb up stairs without feet. Some people even think he still has his feet, but has short legs.
第一次看到李卫的人都会诧异，一个没有双脚的人，不论是打乒乓球还是上楼梯都很自如，甚至有人怀疑他不是没有脚只是腿短。[Full Coverage]

PKU should stress books, not billionaires
北大不出大师出富翁 喜从何来

Peking University, widely considered the top academic institution in China, has also proven to be a wealth factory, turning out some of the country's richest businesspeople. According to media reports, 79 of the school's alumni from 1999 to 2010 have gone on to become billionaires, the most of any academic institution in the country.
作为公认的中国最高学府，北京大学用事实证明，它还是一个财富工厂，国内很多超级大富翁都是从这里走出去的。据媒体报道，1999-2010年间，共有79个北大学子转身变成亿万富翁，产量居全国高校第一。[Full Coverage]

Income gap is big reality on campus
大学教授贫富差距拉大

It has become a common sight in Chinese universities: poor professors cycling to classes on Flying Pigeon bicycles, while their higher-paid colleagues arrive in stylish BMWs. The disparity is a symbol of the large income gap which now exists on campuses across China.
“穷教授骑飞鸽，副教授开宝马”，这样的场景在中国大学校园已是屡见不鲜了。如此迥异的境遇表明，教授们的收入差距正逐渐拉大。

According to a former president, the income disparity among professors dates back to the late 1990s, and was attributed to program commissions and the so-called "gray income" earned from concurrent off-campus jobs.
据一位老校长回忆，教授收入差距的拉大，大约是在上个世纪90年代末以后，而且主要拉开差距的恰恰是项目提成以及校外兼职的灰色收入。
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 关键词：穷教授 富教授