RETHINKING THE WORLD'S BEST SCHOOLS

摘要

Qiu Zhonghai is scanning the artifacts in his high school's paleontology exhibit. "Here is the most valuable item in our collection!" he shouts, peering inside a glass case at a large football-shaped object. "The egg of a dinosaur, one of few in the world that contain a fetus-visible to students by X-ray." Qiu, the principal of Qibao High School in Shanghai and a pioneer in the Chinese education system, moves past a towering tyrannosaurus skeleton to examine another item, which looks like nothing so much as petrified pot roast. "Dinosaur excrement!" he sings. "It is quite a rarity."