18 YOUTH | Campus Wednesday, August 16, 2017 CHINA DAILY
Bold, US high schools’ virtual intake of foreign race of students slows skeletons NEW YORK — The number the US for high school, more of international students are staying to earn a diploma going to the United States for rather than for shortterm SAN FRANCISCO — high school is leveling off after exchange programs, the study Researchers at Stanford years of rapid growth, accord found. University are hosting a ing to a new study. Farrugia says the shift competition of computer Researchers at the nonprof reflects a growing number of generated skeletons in a it Institute of International students seeking to gain an virtual race, as a crowd Education in Washington say edge when applying to US col sourcing effort to gain bet growth is slowing as students leges. ter models of the bone, have more education opportu “They’re coming to get that muscles and nerves that nities in their home countries experience, to get that admis may help doctors manage and abroad. But the US sions advantage,” she says. movement disorders like remains a top study destina California has been the top cerebral palsy. tion for international stu destination for international Sixtythree teams have dents, researchers say. high school students, with submitted 145 ideas to the “The numbers have been 12,200 last year, followed by competition, one of five growing at slower rates each New York, Texas, Florida and similar contests created for year, but there’s still definite Massachusetts. the Neural Information ly interest and growth in Foreign students make up Processing Systems confer international students com only half a percent of the more ence scheduled for early ing to earn a high school than 15 million high school December in Long Beach, Foreign students perform in a variety show at the Guizhou Minzu University in January. PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY diploma in the US,” says students in the US, and they Southern California. Christine Farrugia, author of are required to cover their Lukasz Kidzinski, a post the new study. own costs. The vast majority of doctoral fellow in bioengi American high schools them attend private schools, neering at Stanford enrolled nearly 82,000 inter and more than half attend supplies each team with national students last year, the schools with a religious affilia computer models of the SinoASEAN mingling study found, more than triple tion. human body and the virtual the number from 2004. From While growth among inter world that the body must 2012 to 2013 alone, the num national students has slowed, navigate, including stairs, ber increased 8 percent, but by the number of schools hosting slippery surfaces and more. last year, the annual growth them has continued to surge. The skeletons, in the rate had fallen to just 1 per The study found that 2,800 race, will be running, hop to forge closer bonds cent. high schools enrolled interna ping and jumping as far as Much of the shift has been tional students last year, an they can before collapsing driven by students from Chi increase of 26 percent since in an electronic heap. na, who accounted for 42 per 2013. Vietnamese from Vietnam and a junior cent of all international At the same time, US col student at the university, says students at US high schools leges are increasingly build students enjoy the ASEAN students and last year. Although their num ing ties with those schools as their Chinese classmates and bers surged in 2013 and 2014, part of their work to recruit time at Chinese teachers often gather and researchers found, the growth international students to The time was cook meals during weekends. began to taper off in 2016. campus, says Rajika Bhanda university “This lets us taste other It reflects a similar slow ri, head of research at the right for a Asian dishes on campus and down of Chinese students Institute of International By YANG JUN in Guiyang share our thoughts, as well as going to US colleges and uni Education. challenge like [email protected] make friends from different versities, which some experts “There’s a realization that this.” countries,” says the 28year blame on China’s cooled econ recruiting future interna After more than three years old. omy and increasing competi tional students to colleges Scott Delp, a Stanford at Guizhou Minzu University, Hoawg says the gatherings tion from schools in Australia and universities in the US is professor of bioengineering Luong Nguyen Hai Nam, a have enhanced their under and other nations. not just going to be about and mechanical engineering, Vietnamese student, has fall standing of different cultures. High schools in the US are going overseas,” Bhandari who has spent decades en in love with the land, the According to Xia, activities also drawing large numbers of says. studying the mechanics of sour fish soup and the local On weekends, students from different countries gather for a are also held during local fes students from South Korea, “A lot of them are actually the human body culture. meal in their dormitory, each cooking a dish from their cuisine. tivals to make them feel at Germany, Vietnam, Spain and right here in our backyard.” “Guizhou is my second home. Mexico. hometown. I hope to spend Luong says he has visited Among students who go to ASSOCIATED PRESS The goal behind the con my life here after finishing my Guizhou is my second most cities in Guizhou in his test, which was dreamed studies,” says Luong, 21. spare time and communicat up by Kidzinski, is to better He got a letter of admission hometown. I hope to spend my ed with the local people, and understand how people from the university in 2013, this has taught him a lot with cerebral palsy will giving him a firstclass schol life here after finishing my studies.” about Chinese culture. respond to musclerelaxing arship with a waiver of tuition He says he wants to be a surgery, as the surgery does fees, free accommodation and Luong Nguyen Hai Nam, a Vietnamese student from Guizhou Minzu bridge between China and his not always work to a 1,000 yuan ($150) monthly University country. improve a patient’s gait. stipend. “I will tell people about Kidzinski works in the Studying abroad is a chal what I saw and heard and I lab of Scott Delp, a profes lenge for a high school gradu Luong, who is majoring in school works hard to help hope to enhance mutual sor of bioengineering and ate, especially considering the human resources manage international students to understanding.” of mechanical engineering language barrier and cultural ment, says he hopes he can adapt and study. Xia, for his part, says: “We who has spent decades differences. But he felt enthu get a good job in Guizhou aft There are currently more will organize cultural activi studying the mechanics of siastic when he got to Gui er graduation, with his profi than 200 students from ties twice a year in which the human body and has yang, the provincial capital. ciency in Chinese. ASEAN countries — includ these students can mingle collected data on the move “My teachers were at the Xia Jingang, the deputy ing Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia with Chinese people.” ments and muscle activity airport to pick us,” says dean of the school of interna and Myanmar — studying at of hundreds of individuals Luong, who can now speak tional education at Guizhou the university. Dong Xianwu contributed to Visitors at a US exhibition booth at an international education expo as they walk and run. As a Chinese fluently. Minzu University, says the Hoawg Xuan Truong, also the story. in Beijing in March. A QING / FOR CHINA DAILY result, they can build accu rate models of how individ ual muscles and limbs Promoting traditional operas in schools move in response to signals from the brain. Antisocial kids more likely to However, according to a news release from Stanford, they could not predict how end up poor, new study says people relearn to walk after surgery, as no one is quite sure how the brain controls CHICAGO — People who of Personality and Social status was measured using complex processes like are aggressive, hyperactive Development, which followed information from government walking, let alone walking and struggle in school with 369 individuals from a city in tax, health and population through the obstacle course “antisocial behavior” are more central Finland from ages 8 to records. of daily life or learning how likely to end up in persistent 50 and beyond. “There’s a strong antisocial to walk again after surgery. poverty, require welfare assist The region is ethnically and pathway which starts from Machine learning has ance, experience chronic socioeconomically homogene having a type of lack of control, reached a point where it unemployment and suffer pre ous, and provides a valuable which later on manifests in could be a useful tool for mature death, a report says. backdrop against which social persistence in delinquency and modeling of the brain’s The research, conducted by scientists can study how per rule breaking,” Savolainen says. movement control systems, the University of Michigan, sonality traits influence peo “While others grow up and but for the most part its finds that this kind of persist ple’s lives. mature, some people remain practitioners have been ence in antisocial behavior At age 8, the study collected leading the fast life, drinking, interested in selfdriving proves to be a strong inde teacher and classmate assess fighting and divorcing at an cars, playing complex games pendent indicator, along with ments of the children’s antiso earlier rate.” like chess or serving up reduced cognitive skills, for cial propensity: Whether they The researchers didn’t find more effective online ads. individuals to become perma were aggressive and unable to a direct line of cause between The virtual competition, nently unable to participate in regulate their behavior, as well childhood antisocial propensi instead, could be a “more the workforce by age 50. as teacherassessed school ties to socioeconomic exclu meaningful problem”. “The Primary school students in Hefei, Anhui Research on socioeconomic performance, and control vari sion, but the antisocial time was right for a chal province, learn how to perform Peking attainment traditionally ables such as gender and fami tendencies set in a motion a lenge like this,” Delp was Opera under the guidance of their tutor focuses on cognitive ability ly socioeconomic status. cumulative pathway to adoles quoted as saying. during a lesson. and educational performance At 14, the study gathered cent problem behavior, adult In addition to external Supported by the central government in a as key individual factors. But teacher reports about problem criminal behavior and, ulti challenges, such as stairs campaign to promote Chinese traditional researchers have recently behavior and school data mately, midlife socioeconomic and slippery surfaces, operas in schools, students will be given begun to understand that such about academic performance. exclusion. teams in the competition the opportunity to appreciate traditional noncognitive factors as men In early adulthood, the “The real meat of this contri face internal ones, such as operas at little cost, according to guide tal health, behavioral prob study measured the partici bution (of study) is to docu weak or unreliable muscles. lines issued by the Publicity Department lems and personality traits pants’ socioeconomic status ment the noncognitive, or They are judged based of the Communist Party of China and the play an important role in aca and deviant behavior such as antisocial behavior pathway, on how far their simulated ministries of culture, education and demic achievement, employ criminal behavior, heavy through these life stages as an humans make it through finance. Students in all schools and colleg ment and related outcomes. drinking and alcoholism influential cause of persistent those obstacles in a fixed es nationwide can watch an opera free of charge every year by 2020. Jukka Savolainen of the based on a selfreported ques poverty and socioeconomic amount of time. There are hundreds of forms of local opera in China, with Peking Opera being the most famous. UM Institute for Social tionnaire and government disadvantage,” Savolainen says. Peking Opera and Kunqu Opera are listed by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. Research used data from the administrative records. In XINHUA PHOTOS BY ZHANG DAGANG / FOR CHINA DAILY Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study midlife, at 50, socioeconomic XINHUA