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1、ComparisonofChineseandAmericanEducationChineseandAmericanstudentshaveverydifferentbehaviors,waysofthinking,andstudymethod.Also,teachersinthetwocountrieshavediverseteachingstyle.Moreover,educationmanagementintwocountries’schoolistotallydifferent.Thediffer
2、encesarenotonlyabouttwocountries’disparatehistoryorlanguage.Themostimportantistwocountries’differenteducationsystem.ChineseandAmericaneducationisdifferentbecausetwocountrieshaveverydifferenteducationalpolitics,economicandculturalsystems.Firstofall,differ
3、entpoliticsmaketwocountries’studentshavedifferentgoalsofstudying.Chinesestudentsalwaystryhardtogetagoodscoreonthetest,butAmericanstudentswanttodiscoversomethingbythemselves.InChina,YinandYangalmostknowsbyeveryone,evenfamousintheworldnow.However,LI(2004)s
4、aid,ChineseeducationonlyhasYin,thereisnoYang.Everyoneevaluatestudentsbytheirtestscore;parents,teachers,companies,evenstudentsevaluatewhoisgoodstudentsbyscore.Sostudentsallfocusonthetextbook,trytomemorizeeverythingfromthebook,andthengetagoodscoretomakeeve
5、ryonehappyincludethemselves.Iftheycanhaveagoodscoreattheendofhighschool,thentheycangetinaprestigiousuniversity.Asaresult,theydonotneedtostudyhardintheuniversity,stillcangetagoodjobwithahighsalarywithoutpracticalexperience.However,Americanstudentsaretrain
6、edbypracticalwhentheyareintheelementaryschool.Studentsdolabhomework,groupworktofindouttheanswerbythemselves.Theprogressforcesstudentstoexploretheirpotentialabilities.ThatiswhyAmericansarekeepinginventingnewtechnology,suchasApple,Microsoftandmilitaryweapo
7、ns.ItisoneoftheimportantreasonsthatAmericanisthemostpowerfulcountriesintheworld.HereisasharpexampleisofdifferentbetweenAmericanstudentsandChinesestudents.ChinesestudentsconsistentlyoutperformAmericanstudentsinacademicachievement.IntheThirdInternationalMa
8、thematicsandScienceStudywhichtookplacein1995.StudentsinHongKongscoredfourthplaceintheinternationalrankings,whiletheU.S.studentscoreswerebarelygoodenoughtoearnthemtwenty-thirdplaces.AstudyconductedbyStedmansuggeststhatpoorU