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* Erasing college divisions Issue.1134 Dec 16, 2015 Small cities attract innovation Group Discussion Detailed Study Erasing college divisions General Questions Group Discussion Read the passsage and discuss the following questions with your group members. 1. Do you agree with Zhang Mingjies opinion? 2. Have you experienced this university discrimination? 3. What do you think about Shanghais plan? Skimming and scanning: Find the answers to the following quesitons as quickly as possible. Instruction 1.Why did Zhang Mingjie feel regretful? 2. What change will Shanghais plan bring about? He felt students from second-tier universities are vegetables in street markets, while those from first-tier universities are at supermarkets. It doesn’t necessarily mean vegetables from street markets are not as good, but top companies only shop at supermarkets. General Questions Under Shanghai’s plan, all universities will recruit high school graduates during the same time period, according to students’ applications and college entrance examination scores. 3. What is the significance of the new move?  4. What is the extra benefit of the plan? Previous classifications by ‘batches’ created a stark distinctions between schools, even though all schools have their strong majors and weak ones. Now they’re going to compete on the same platform.” General Questions The new move is going to help remove the discrimination between universities. Many “first batch” universities previously benefited from government education endeavors like “Project 211” and “Project 985”, which gave them an advantage over other schools. 5. What did Xiao Lirong say about this? 6. What do American universities care more about? Xiao said, Good learning habits are more important than which school you went to, because the changing society is pushing every one of us to constantly adapt to new skills.” General Questions American universities, they care more about students’ majors than which sc