Tag Archives: schools

Visualizing a school stabbing

A stabbing in Leizhou, Guangdong Province, gets recreated as a cartoon illustration on the cover of today’s Jianghuai Morning News.

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Schools disagree on how best to cover a book

It’s the start of a new semester and the debate over book covers is in the news once again.

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Say you’re satisfied, for the sake of the children

Children’s school scores are held hostage to ensure their parents fill out a survey satisfactorily.

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Boom and bust for “hope schools”

The Beijing News investigates the huge number of abandoned primary school buildings in Changyang County, Hubei Province.

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Tofu building investigations

Two links about shoddily constructed schools.

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Investigating a school collapse

Carrying the Olympic torch; schools and the earthquake; Vantone in the Freedom Tower; crashing a market.

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Is self-preservation a firing offense?

Fan Meizhong (范美忠) abandoned his class and fled out of the school when the earthquake hit.

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Where was this when I was a kid?

A popular new toy: the knife-nunchuck!

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