Life Lessons in Children's Choirs

CHILDREN choirs not only train children how to sing but also nurture in them a collabora-tive spirit which benefits them for the rest of their life.Their young voices harmonize gloriously and the happy faces of the Baby Snail Choir clearly show that they enjoy singing.Yet the group of children in the choir face a major challenge that belies their vocal ability.They were all born with severe hearing im-pairments.Even with cochlear implants,the world they hear is different from ours.     

Lessons for Life

<正>A Beijing school struggles gamely to give migrant workers’children quality education Félicie,an orphan,dreams of becoming a bal erina.Though she lacks formal training,the young girl is determined to get enrol ed in a ballet school and runs away from her orphanage in rural Brittany to Paris.After overcoming a series of hurdles,she fi nally manages to be accepted as a student at the capital’s     

Lessons for Life

正Pioneering project for rural children strengthens educational reform In her recent photographs with ner little daughter,both of them wearing smart matching clothes in blue,Su Mingjuan looks affluent and confident.Its a far cry from her photograph in 1991,which became the face of China's largest charitable program Project Hope's drive for educational improvements in impoverished rural areas.     

Lessons for Life

Growth of affordable kindergartens has made preschool education more balanced After inspecting the three classes in his kindergarten,Li Ming,head of the preschool institution in Anding,a village in Yunnan Province,southwest China,feels satisfied.     

残疾与歧视:——儿童生活史的个案研究

中国有超过500万的残疾儿童,其中80%生活在农村地区.很多农村的残疾儿童生活贫困.并且缺少基本的医疗、教育和提供给残疾人的服务.本文通过对江西省H县的残疾儿童个案研究发现,残疾儿童还可能遭受到来自学校、家长、同伴和社会的歧视.社会歧视对儿童的一生发展产生严重的负面影响,需要全社会的共同行动,反对歧视残疾儿童.     

Critical Lessons in Paternalism

正The renowned American philosopher and scholar John Dewey completed a two-year sojourn to China a century ago, a critical turning point in his life at a time when China, too, stood at a crossroads. Dewey entered China in 1919, the year of the transformative May Fourth Movement, and left in 1921, coincidentally the year the Communist Party of China was founded.     

Fishing Lessons

China will teach underdeveloped African countries how to provide for themselves China-Africa cooperation has gone through a growth spurt in recent decades. Non-governmental exchanges have been especially successful in encouraging people from both sides to learn more about the other     

Latin Lessons

正Integration presents challenges and opportunities for Chinese companies in Latin America On December 3 the Third Summit of Latin American and Caribbean States lowered its curtain in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, officially signing into effect the formation of the Community of Latin A merican and Caribbean States (CELAC) as the new leading regional bloc, which symbolized further integration of the region and a milestone after Latin America's independence fighters first raised the battle cry for a united Latin America 200 years ago. As the second largest trade partner and the third largest investor of the region,     

Lessons Learned

正Experts push for cooperation between world's two largest economies in post-COVID-19 world With the international community now facing the dual challenges of containing the novel coronavirus disease(COVID-19) pandemic and restoring the economy and social activities, international cooperation is needed more than ever to strike a balance between the two goals.     

Lessons Learned

Amonth before the PRC 60th anniversary celebrations in Beijing, I traveled back to the US as part of a group fromthe Chinese media to meet with former American president George H.W. Bush, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Sino-U.S. diplomatic ties. The interview he granted us was for Chinese television and part of a larger series featuring various individuals recounting developments in New China that took place on their watch. Mr. Bush and the PRC have done more than just cross paths over the last 60 years. His particular story began back in the early 1970s when then President Nixon took notice of a young congressman from the State of Texas.     

Lessons From Japan

In the mid-to late 1980s, Japan experienced a prolonged bubble economy and entered a decadelong recession after it burst.The economy in China currently has several things in common with Japan's economy before its bubbles burst, such as a large foreign exchange reserve, an international dispute over currency revaluation, excess liquidity, and soaring asset prices.     

Financial Lessons Learned

As the Wall Street chaos of 2008 swept the globe,China-with little exposure to subprime mortgages-was one of the only calm ports in the growing financial storm.Ifone lesson can be learned from the crisis,it is this: maintain a constant state of financial vigilance against risks even in boom times.China now faces the task of ensuring its financial health as it further opens to the world amid a global financial landscape reshaped by deep recessions.Economists and finance professors discussed these challenges at the Asia-Pacific Economic and Financial Forum recently held in Beijing.Edited excerpts follow:     

Lessons With Love

正Volunteers and policies go hand in hand to improve rural educationWhen Zhang Chengxiang, a teacher from a technical college in east China, recently went to Xiliushui Hope Primary School in Guizhou Province in southwest China to be a volunteer teacher, it was her second mission in that isolated area. When she first got there, she was daunted by the high mountains that encircled the vil age and cut it off from the outside world.     

Lessons In Love

正Age-appropriate sex education aims to make youths more responsible What comes to your mind immediately when we talk about sex?In a sex education class for primary school students’ parents in Dujiangyan, southwest China’s Sichuan Province,teacher Du Li asks this question and triggers an animated discussion on     

Lessons from WWII

正THERE have always been contradictions between countries around the world.We,however,should not be vexed by them,but instead adopt the right attitude and appropriately respond to them,"Nakayama Toshio of the Clausewitz Society of Japan said at an international seminar held in Beijing last July to retrospect World War I and II.Mr.Toshio went on to say that     

Lessons Worth Learning

How Haiti can gain from China’s earthquake relief and reconstruction efforts On May 12, 2008, one of the biggest earthquakes in modern Chinese history leveled much of Sichuan, claimed     

Children's After School Arrangements

SUMMARY

Developmental correlates of children's after school arrangements were examined with suburban seventh graders and their mothers. Self-care children identified as unsupervised and “hanging out” had more difficulties than supervised children or unsupervised self-care children “at home” in terms of school achievement, susceptibility to peer pressure, self-reported behavior problems, and experimentation with alcohol. The study failed to identify any benefits of leaving children unsupervised after school in terms of adaptive behavior or competence. The findings have implications for providing more supportive services to working families as a means of increasing family competence.