MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) -- Some school administrators were set to spend a few days of their summer learning more about education in China.
The Confucius Institute at Middle Tennessee State University was scheduled to lead a delegation of educators on a ten-day excursion to China for a whirlwind sample of Chinese elementary and secondary schools.
The delegation said they would depart June 7 to tour sites in Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Beijing before returning to the United States on June 17.
Mike Novak, assistant director of the institute, said one purpose of the mission would be to enhance educators' understanding of each other's methods.
For instance, he said the pupil-teacher ratio is considerably smaller in China because schools hire 20 to 50 percent more faculty.
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