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Pennsylvania Professors Talked About
US Education PKU NEWS 2005--03—08
By Wang Liqiong
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=110420445
Peking University, Beijing, March 8th, 2005:Jerry Murphy, visiting professor of Penn
GSE, expressed his understanding of ‗leader‘ in his presentation ―The Cult of
Charisma and World Class Schools‖ —who often work behind the scenes with others
and lead through the creation of innovative organization with the capacity to learn,
rather than an overemphasis to rely primarily on charismatic leaders to create world
class schools.
In this Peking-Pennsylvania GSE talks (graduate school of education), Prof. Murphy,
former dean GSE in Harvard, analyzed the reason of the cult of charisma in
education, mainly for the high expectations of educational work since the human
history, for school goals towards universal proficiency, for the challenging gap
between the current schools‘ performance and high expectations in new century.
Susan Fuhrman, dean of Penn GSE, said they encouraged more students to go out
for a new market, different from Harvard which emphasized professional practice or
from Peking University which prefer to be more basically all-round.
In Prof. Fuhrman‘ speech of ―trends in education policy‖, she pointed out the great
significance of NCLB (No Child Left Behind) project launched to narrow the growing
social disparity.
She also concerned that testing and curriculum is still considered as the most
important assessment about students.
Besides that, the other two challenges were listed: the matter of capacity concerning
students‘ skill-oriented mindset and teachers‘ seniority-based promotion, resources
disparity between poor states and rich ones.
Peking University has started EDD program cooperation co-training doctors in
advanced educational administration since 2004 with Pennsylvania, a member of Ivy
League who has a good reputation in graduate school of education.
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