Beijing, March 3 (Zhongxin.com) (Wei Xianghui) Recently, a news of the "establishment of the National High School C20 Alliance" rushed to the Weibo hot search list, causing heated discussions among netizens. Some people believe that this is a pioneer of education reform and helps improve the quality of education. Some people also believe that this is a "roll king alliance" in the education sector, which is easy to cause a monopoly of high-quality educational resources.
More than 400 students are trained and sent to Qingbei every year
On March 3, in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Zhenhai Middle School, Hebei Hengshui Middle School, Shandong Jinan Licheng No. 12 Middle School, Nanjing Foreign Chinese School, Fudan University Affiliated Middle School, Fujian Province Fuzhou No. 9 Middle School, Hubei Province Wuchang Experimental Middle School, Hunan Normal University Affiliated Middle School, South China Normal University Affiliated Middle School and South China Normal University Affiliated High School launched the establishment of the "New Era China Excellent High School Development Community" (China's 9 Excellent High Schools Development" Community in The New Era ("C9").
The picture shows the campus of Hengshui Middle School in Hebei. Source: Hengshui Middle School official website
It is understood that the alliance is a non-profit education cooperation community initiated by the above nine ordinary high schools and some educators on the basis of equality and voluntariness. According to the "C9" recent work plan, it will carry out top-notch innovative talent basic training and education experimental projects, joint teaching and research, and tour lectures of famous teachers.
This makes many people think of the college version of the C9 Alliance. In October 2009, the first batch of first-class universities in the country's "10 Project", including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University, University of Science and Technology of China, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and other 985 universities formed a university academic alliance.
Chinanews.com noted that in media reports, these 9 high schools are also described as "top high schools" in China. According to incomplete statistics, in the 2022 college entrance examination, the National High School C9 Alliance trained and sent more than 400 outstanding students to Tsinghua University and Peking University.
In the public media reports, according to the resolution of the first council of "C9", the "C9" community will carry out exchanges and cooperation in the sharing of high-quality educational resources, teacher development, student training, management reform, education and scientific research, teaching quality evaluation, education and teaching innovation, etc., and jointly explore a new path for the reform and development of China's general high school education in the new era.
Wu Jian, principal of the Affiliated High School of Fudan University, said that the "C9" schools "are not aligned, do not antagonize, and do not target third parties." The 9 schools in the community have their own characteristics, each with its own cultural accumulation characteristics, and the characteristics presented by each do not constitute a conflict, all of which are constantly increasing and improving everyone's understanding and pursuit of educational excellence in the new era.
The controversy behind the league: how to promote balanced development of high schools
After the news of the high school C9 alliance was released, it attracted attention and interpretation, and some people were worried about the "monopoly of high-quality resources".
A parent who has experienced the middle school entrance examination for his child said that the diversion rate of about 50% of the high school entrance examination, the cruel competition of local top high schools, and the "pinching of the top" make the high school entrance examination more anxious and bitter than the college entrance examination.
For the above-mentioned high schools to establish the C9 alliance, he believes that the current sample is too small, and all of them are top high schools, solidified into the C9 alliance, which will have a long-term and far-reaching impact, such as labeling, high-end, and exclusivity. At the same time, he also expressed doubts about the high school C9 alliance's statement that "high-quality educational resources" cooperate with each other to improve each other, rather than "educational resources" being balanced.
The picture shows the classroom of Zhenhai Middle School in Zhejiang Province. Source: Zhenhai Middle School official WeChat public account
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences, told Chinanews.com that high school alliances are not uncommon in China, mainly to gain an advantage in competition. He said that at present, there is a cascade structure between high schools in China, so it is more necessary to accelerate the balanced development of education and narrow the differences between schools.
"Relative balance is relative vitality." Chu Zhaohui believes that the schools of the high school C9 alliance are located at the top of the cascade structure, and in general, all localities should grasp the scale, break the score theory, explore diversified standards, and let high school education be in a benign ecology of science and rationality.
Chu Zhaohui also mentioned that in the past few years, some people have put forward the slogan of "protecting the county". He believes that protecting the county is actually to balance the resources of high school education.
In July last year, at a press conference of the Ministry of Education, Lu Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, said that it is necessary to resolutely curb the excessive loss of high-quality students in the county, and resolutely curb the problem of some schools competing for students across regions, especially across cities and counties. This reform has been launched since 7, and the overall goal is to fully implement it in three years. (End)