What Chinese Schools Can Teach American Children

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 21, 2017

Lenora Chu, former TV correspondent with Thomson Reuters, contributing writer with CNNMoney.com, and the author of Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve (Harper, 2017), talks about her personal experience with sending her young American son to public school in Shanghai and her reporting on the strengths and weaknesses of that high-achieving system.

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