Spring 2012
EXCHANGES The CEI Newsletter
Updates from the China Exchange Initiative
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Updates from the China Exchange Initiative
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Review of ASP China Trip 2012
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Greetings from the China Exchange Initiative! Back from our annual ASP China trip, we’ve set our sights on 20122013. Next year we will work with a diverse group of 31 administrators from Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Oregon. Administrators from Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania will be partnered with principals from Hebei province. On the Chinese side, the program will be administered by our colleagues in the Hebei Bureau of Education. Oregon participants will be paired with counterparts from Xi’an, in the first year of a new partnership with the Shaanxi Bureau of Education. Fall hosting dates have been set, with Chinese participants arriving on October 22nd, and Shadowing from October 27th to November 2nd.
ASP 2012 marks the final year of our collaboration with ASP 2012 Participants in the China Education Association for International the Press Exchange (CEAIE). Our organizational aims, never ASP 2013 Program completely aligned, are no longer compatible enough to Participants maintain the program quality that we expect. We depart with no hard feelings, wishing them the best of luck in the Alumni Updates future. In January, the China Exchange Initiative co-sponsored an academic conference at Boston University, entitled “Global Education Strategies: U.S.-China School Exchange.” Numerous ASP alumni participated in this special event, which included talks by Kim MacClure, Deputy Director of U.S. State Department’s 100,000 Strong Initiative, Ben Liebman, Director of the Columbia University Center for Chinese Legal Studies, and Paul Reville, Massachusetts Secretary of Education.