About a decade ago, China started doing a bunch of research and analysis around its (booming and hyper-competitive) after-school private tutoring industry. After several years of researchers and policymakers dissecting its impact on education, culture, families, students, society https://t.co/63BtVXltPZ
About a decade ago, China started doing a bunch of research and analysis around its (booming and hyper-competitive) after-school private tutoring industry. After several years of researchers and policymakers dissecting its impact on education, culture, families, students, society https://t.co/63BtVXltPZ
One of the main findings cited in their policy rationale was that all the research indicated the after-school tutoring industry, in myriad ways, ultimately wound up exerting a chilling effect on fertility. Among other things, all the social, financial, emotional, competitive, and cultural pressures it imposed, along with the sheer time demands, had... See more