Saving Our Schools
By Hwa Yue-Yi
February 2017 COVER STORY
The writing has been on the wall for quite a while. We need to recognize why our education system is stagnating.At the beginning of the 1964 school year, teachers in a California primary school were told that some of their students had shown extraordinary results on an IQ test. They were also told that these students, roughly one-fifth of all pupils in the school, were expected to have academic growth spurts that year.At the end of the year, the group...
Hwa Yue-Yi
is a PhD candidate in Education at the University of Cambridge. Prior to this, she was a secondary school English teacher and a fellow at the Penang Institute in Kuala Lumpur.
