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Britain turns to Chinese textbooks to raise math scores
Published Sun, Aug 6, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Beijing
EDUCATORS around the world were stunned when students in Shanghai came first in their international standardised testing debut, in 2010, besting their counterparts in dozens of countries in what some called a Sputnik-like moment.
Now, some British schools will try to replicate that success by using translated textbooks that are otherwise all but identical to those in public elementary schools around Shanghai.
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