Recently, various independent enrollment and selection schemes have been introduced one after another. Peking University's "Principal's Real Name Recommendation" and Tsinghua's "New Centennial Plan" have been announced. Tsinghua of Peking University has put in 18 and 19 secondary school recommendation qualifications in Jiangsu, both of which rank among the top in China. In Jiangsu and Nantong, a total of six middle schools have been recommended to recommend Tsinghua of Peking University, which is not only the best in Jiangsu, but also unique in China.

Jiangsu is the focus of national education, and Nantong is the focus of Jiangsu education. In fact, Nantong's excellent basic education has long been famous. When the reporter went to Nantong to reveal the secret, he met middle school delegations from Xianyang, Shaanxi, Shihezi, Xinjiang and Yangzhou, Jiangsu. Nantong's basic education is first-class, balanced and distinctive, and there is no "super middle school".

Do not engage in "super middle schools" and let a hundred flowers blossom.

The high enrollment rate, especially that of Peking University and Tsinghua, and the recommendation qualification of independent enrollment are excellent, and Nantong phenomenon has attracted the attention of the whole country. However, there is no "super middle school" with "one school dominating the university", and a "Nantong Corps" with strong overall strength and group operations has emerged.

There are six schools in Nantong, namely Nantong Middle School, Haimen Middle School, Hai 'an Middle School, Qidong Middle School, rugao middle school Middle School and Rudong Middle School, which are recommended by Peking University and Tsinghua. Except Nantong Middle School, the other five schools are below the county level, and even Haimen Middle School is superior to Nantong Middle School in the urban area. Instead of "super middle schools", focusing on cultivating talents in a large area will have a good ecology in which all middle schools will blossom and compete for growth.

Nantong pays special attention to the overall optimization of educational resources, realizing the transformation from key construction to comprehensive construction, and from promoting the development of a few traditions in the past to promoting the common development of all schools. By adjusting the layout of ordinary high schools, upgrading weak schools, and conducting joint school experiments, the driving effect of high-quality educational resources has been amplified. All senior high schools have reached the three standards of Jiangsu Province, and the proportion of four schools has increased from the original 18.4% to 33.3.

In Nantong, from parents to students, compared with 283 prefecture-level cities in China, it is lucky: there are many good middle schools. The reporter met a Mr. Xu, whose son was admitted to Fudan University from an "unknown" high school in 2005, and now he has studied for a doctorate. However, in many middle schools in China, it is difficult to send a student to Fudan Jiaotong University in ten years and eight years, especially in Tsinghua and Peking University. Yang Dongping, an educator, made a comparative study on the changes of rural children's access to quality higher education. It shows that the proportion of rural students in Peking University has been declining since it reached its peak in 1960s+0980s, and it has dropped even more sharply since the enrollment expansion in 1960s +0998, with only 10% left at present. In Haimen Middle School, among the 22 students admitted to Tsinghua of Peking University this year, 10 came from rural areas, and other districts and counties in Nantong also had rural children admitted to Tsinghua of Peking University.

By cultivation, not by introduction.

Of the 57 senior high schools in Nantong, four (Jiangsu Grade I) 18 are evenly distributed in three districts and six counties. The traditional "Old Eight Schools" (Nantong Middle School, Nantong No.1 Middle School, Haimen, Hai 'an, Qidong, Rudong, Rugao, Tongzhou and other six urban counties) have long been famous all over the country, and new people emerge every year to challenge the "old". Up to now, Nantong has been ranked first in Jiangsu College Entrance Examination (Weibo) for seven consecutive years, and nearly one-third of the places put by Peking University Tsinghua in Jiangsu, a major education province, have been won by Nantong Corps. Professor Zhou, director of Tsinghua University Jiangsu Admissions Office, lamented that Tsinghua's enrollment in various places had to go down to the county level in Nantong, Jiangsu.

"I'm not interested in being the top scholar in Nantong. I care more about letting every child lay a solid foundation for becoming a happy individual, a qualified citizen and a useful talent in the basic education stage. " Guo Yihao, director of Nantong Education Bureau, believes that Nantong's overall plan is to "grasp the middle and bring both ends", especially to "improve quality" and "make up the price difference" and form a team to "teach students in accordance with their aptitude". The director of education, once the principal of Nantong Normal School, learned from Nantong's quality education that teachers are the foundation of education quality, and the way of Nantong lies in "putting more pressure on teachers and less pressure on children". To this end, Nantong pays close attention to the construction of teaching staff and teaching research throughout the city, "in exchange for a small number of topics for children's relaxed and efficient learning effect."

"Super middle schools" generally enroll students in the whole province or the whole city, which is forbidden in Nantong. All districts and counties only recruit students within their own scope to ensure "fair competition" between schools; For the treatment of teachers, performance-based salary incentives are obvious, and there is little difference between districts and counties. The Education Bureau explicitly prohibits teachers from moving across regions, which adds "determination" to both teachers and students: "If you sink to the end, you will be able to rise to the heights."

There is no difference between children and teachers. Based on this concept, Nantong has carried out the "administrative-led, multi-party linkage" teacher training project. Wang Xiaojun, deputy director of Nantong Education Bureau, said frankly that Nantong "cannot rely on citation, but depends on cultivation". As early as ten years ago, Nantong formulated the "Nantong Primary and Secondary School Talent Training Plan" to explore training. Five years ago, Nantong primary and secondary schools selected 22 potential and promising training objects and started the first echelon training project. At present, 15 people have become special-grade teachers in Jiangsu Province, and 6 people have been selected into the training sequence of "Jiangsu People's Educators", which is of great significance in the whole province. In order to train the first echelon, Nantong Education Bureau specially hired dozens of tutors composed of senior special-grade teachers, well-known education experts and scholars, and well-versed administrative officials, who were responsible for making training plans, assessment and evaluation, and became the "think tank" and "management office" of training programs.

If you have a sense of belonging, you won't "fly southeast"

All the way up. Haimen Middle School, Nantong Middle School, Qidong Middle School, etc. In recent years, the enrollment of Tsinghua in Peking University has been above double digits, and it has performed well in special fields such as academic competitions, scientific and technological inventions, art and sports, and its enrollment ranks among the top in Jiangsu.

Shi Xin, a special-grade teacher and headmaster of Haimen Middle School, believes that as a century-old famous school, the core idea of Haizhong is to "implement human nature education and cultivate talents", and its practice is nothing more than the words "establish a school with culture and strengthen quality". In the center of the campus of Haimen Middle School hangs the teaching experience of a gentleman from the Republic of China: "Don't be mysterious, don't play tricks, work hard from scratch and see what you have achieved;" Also be an apprentice and a teacher, echoing into a spirit and encouraging this spirit. " Shi Xin believes that this is a vivid portrayal of the sea in a hundred years. Yao, a special-grade teacher, is the principal of Nantong Middle School, and has been teaching for more than 30 years. He deeply felt that since the reform and opening up, Nantong's education is obviously superior to the surrounding areas. At present, Tsinghua's independent selection in Peking University is a major breakthrough in "one exam for life", which has a great incentive effect on students with special potential.

At present, when many high schools are in a dilemma between quality education and exam-oriented education, President Shi Xin said: "Without high enrollment rate, schools will be marginalized. If we only pay attention to exam-oriented education, schools will be vulgarized. A good educational concept is by no means controversial. " School-based curriculum is the carrier of school ideas. There are as many as 100 school-based courses in Haimen middle school, covering three categories: knowledge, expansibility and value, such as weekend cultural forum, animation club and robot club. Strive to achieve "no one has me, people have me, and people are better than me." "In such a school, children are smoked out, not forced out ..."

Advanced ideas need an atmosphere to be transformed into excellent results. In Nantong, it is generally believed that this kind of atmosphere is that the whole society respects teachers and values teaching, and teachers have common value goals, strong professionalism and high sense of responsibility. In reality, all districts and counties in Nantong are trying their best to improve the incentive mechanism of teachers' performance pay. The most important thing is that most of them are cultivated by themselves and have a sense of belonging to Nantong. Even if the surrounding developed areas have more attractive treatment, not many teachers "fly southeast" because of the generous treatment of teachers from other places. On the contrary, Nantong's basic education is getting better and better than some cities with more developed economy and society in the province.

(Jiefang Niuwang Jiefang Daily)