In 1964, ** instructed in a letter to the principal of a Beijing middle school that there were too many school courses, too much pressure on students, poor teaching, examination methods with students as enemies, and surprise attacks were not conducive to cultivating students' moral, intellectual, and physical development vividly. **Advocate heuristic teaching, advocate "less but fine" teaching.
The above example is taken from an article in Professor Hu Angang's book "How to Understand Contemporary China", talking about the enlightenment of the lecture method on education and learning.
Compared with the education suggestions put forward in the 60s, nearly 60 years have passed, 40 years have passed since the reform and opening up, the education reform has been implemented many times, and the local education reform has also been promoted one after another, from the cancellation of the primary school to the allocation of sliced enrollment, from the construction of demonstration schools to the narrowing of the education gap, we can see the results, but the school district is rising, the school students are seriously involuted, parents are anxious, the school choice on the surface has been canceled, but the school choice in the secret is still fighting for the baby, It seems that the issue of schooling has not been effectively addressed.
It is undeniable that behind the proud results, there are many sweats and tears of students, schools, parents, and teachers, but behind the gratifying figures, it seems that there are tired, sluggish faces, and strangers standing at the top of the examination machine. Writer Zhang Xiaofeng said, I gave you a cute child, what kind of teenager do you give me!
In 2018, the Beijing Municipal High School Entrance Examination implemented a round of reform, when it was 12 subjects that were all open and all exams, and they were all included in the results of the high school entrance examination.
Students are tired of coping, the teaching method is mainly brushed questions, the mechanical involution is boring and monotonous, students' interest in learning gradually disappears, independent thinking and innovative thinking are deterred by standardized answers, and the first score has become the only goal of learning pursuit. In 2022, there was a serious flattening of the high school entrance examination results in Beijing, although the difference in the source of students between schools was balanced to a certain extent, but the reality of one point and one playground still hit the learning confidence of countless children and wiped out the learning fun of countless children.
In 2024, Beijing will launch a new round of reform of the high school entrance examination, with 14 courses, including language, mathematics, politics, physics, and physical education, history, geography, biology, and chemistry as the assessment, divided into four levels of ABCD, and the rest of the subjects are examined, divided into qualified and unqualified, and the reform will be implemented from the current eighth grade.
This reform, advocating "big subtraction, small addition, multi-channel, and new carrier", is regarded as the entry point for the reform of the basic education school system, aiming to reduce the burden of students' examinations, optimize the examination methods and performance presentation methods, and promote the reform of diversified admission paths and diversified admission paths for high schools.
However, from the perspective of the number of examination subjects, students are still very burdened, the diversified ways of high school admission have not been announced, the university admissions system is still quiet, and if the reform of the high school entrance examination and the reform of the college entrance examination lack effective connection, it can only be said that the education reform can only dance a few tricks.
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