Students exit the testing hall after taking the High School Entrance Exam in Shanghai, June 19, 2016. VCG

Shanghai’s Students Need More Homework, Not Less

Well-intentioned reforms targeting the extreme workloads of the city’s primary and middle schoolers are doing more harm than good.

Zhang Duanhong, Director of the Education Policy Research Center at Tongji University

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