The
educational system in Shanghai — and in China at large — has undergone several stages of development: the rigid
Russian model during the 1950s, a period of «renaissance» in the early 1960s, disastrous damage during the Cultural Revolution (1966 — 1976), rapid expansion of basic education during the 1980s and 1990s, and in the 21st century a move toward higher education that is widely accessible to students across the entire country (OECD, 2010).