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Chang, Lerongrong; Bu, Qingyun – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2020
With the advancement of China's economic and social development and urbanization, the scale of out-of-town migrant workers has been expanding. Following this, migrant worker children's education problem has become increasingly prominent and has gradually become a focus of education research. This paper reviews recent studies on migrant worker…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Migrant Children, Equal Education, Urban Education
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Yuyou, Qin; Wenjing, Zeng – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
Professional rank is an important indicator of the professional capacity of compulsory education teachers. A rational professional rank evaluation system plays an important role in mobilizing the enthusiasm of teachers, improving the overall quality of teachers, and promoting the development of education. Based on stratified random sample data…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Rural Education, Compulsory Education, Academic Rank (Professional)
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Wenwen, Zhang – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2017
Excellence and equality is an essential goal of compulsory education in China. This goal, however, is difficult to achieve in practice because of the difficulties in balancing between excellence and equality and in sustaining equality as a result of resource redistribution. This article uses the data of the nationally representative China…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Quality, Educational Equity (Finance)
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Guilin, Yuan – Chinese Education & Society, 2018
Given that education quality has long lagged behind in China's rural schools, one-way "partner assistance" no longer conforms to the new situation of integrated urban-rural governance and the equalization of public services. Only two-way "exchange and rotation" with full participation can truly support schools and teachers in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Teacher Exchange Programs, Urban Education
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Wang, Lihua – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2016
This article looks at the central and local governments' policymaking and implementation of compulsory education for migrant children in China. Three distinct models of policy implementation were identified through a case study approach. They indicated a selective adaptation of central policy objective and principles by the local governments and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Migrants, Case Studies, Migrant Children
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Youlu, Shen; Xinyi, Qiao – Frontiers of Education in China, 2012
The balanced development of compulsory education has been given due and lengthy coverage in the "Outline of China's National Plan for Medium and Long-Term Education Reform and Development (2010-2020)" which, to some extent, reflects the needs of our time and the demands of the general public. However, detailed analyses reveal that many…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Educational Development, Educational Change
Fang, Hai; Eggleston, Karen N.; Rizzo, John A.; Rozelle, Scott; Zeckhauser, Richard J. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
As China transforms from a socialist planned economy to a market-oriented economy, its returns to education are expected to rise to meet those found in middle-income established market economies. This study employs a plausible instrument for education: the China Compulsory Education Law of 1986. We use differences among provinces in the dates of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Compulsory Education, Educational Legislation
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Lu, Jinjin; Liu, Yingliang – English Language Teaching, 2016
Enhancing students' learning autonomy has been emphasized in the current round of English curriculum reforms by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in China. The initial aim of the new guidelines was developed to enhance students' English proficiency to better fulfil their basic education (Nine-year compulsory education). However, up until now, very…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy, English (Second Language), English Curriculum
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Creese, Brian; Gonzalez, Alvaro; Isaacs, Tina – Curriculum Journal, 2016
This paper sets out the main findings of the International Instructional Systems Study (IISS), conducted by the UCL Institute of Education and funded by the Center on International Education Benchmarking (CIEB). The study examined the instructional systems and intended curricula of six "high performing" countries and two US states. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Practices, Educational Objectives
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Pilz, Matthias; Krisanthan, Balasundaram; Michalik, Bjoern; Zenner, Lea; Li, Jun – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
The role of pre-vocational education in general compulsory education has become increasingly relevant over recent years, with the international debate focussing particularly on its importance in school-to-work transitions. This study considers curriculum design and the implementation of pre-vocational education in four countries with radically…
Descriptors: Prevocational Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Role of Education
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Jianjun, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
The history of curriculum reform from 1978 to 2008 in mainland China may be divided into three phases, each--respectively--committed to the recovery of the curriculum system ruined by the Cultural revolution, construction of a curriculum system in concert with the nine-year compulsory education, and pursuit of quality education under the changed…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Compulsory Education, Educational Quality, Educational Change
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Yang, Peidong – London Review of Education, 2014
This paper presents an ethnographic interpretation of education as a social technology of state sovereign power and governing in the borderlands of contemporary China. Illustrated with snapshots from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a Pumi (Premi) ethnic village located along China's south-western territorial margins, it is argued that the…
Descriptors: Student Mobility, Ethnic Groups, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
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Wu, Jinting – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2012
Despite the state's unrelenting efforts to enforce compulsory basic education, schooling in rural ethnic China remains an elusive ideal that leads to massive dropout and prepares many only for factory sweatshops. Based on 16 months of ethnographic research, this article examines the disjuncture between the official education policy known as the…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Yi, Hongmei; Zhang, Linxiu; Luo, Renfu; Shi, Yaojiang; Mo, Di; Chen, Xinxin; Brinton, Carl; Rozelle, Scott – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
Despite requirements of and support for universal education up to grade 9, there are concerning reports that poor rural areas in China suffer from high and maybe even rising dropout rates. Although aggregated statistics from the Ministry of Education show almost universal compliance with the 9-year compulsory education law, there have been few…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Equal Education, Dropout Rate, Compulsory Education
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Xie, Tongwei – International Journal of Educational Management, 2011
Purpose: This article aims to analyze inter-provincial disparities of rural education and the convergence rate, and to discuss the effects of compulsory education reform after 2001. Design/methodology/approach: The article estimates the rural average education years and education Gini coefficients of China's 31 provinces (municipalities) beside…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Equal Education, Compulsory Education, Educational Change
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