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Fan, Xianzuo; Peng, Pai – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
The educational inequity of rural workers' children is a unique social problem in the transition stage of China. Based on the specific survey in such provinces as Hubei, Henan, Anhui, and other provinces, a conclusion can be drawn that the reasons for the educational inequity of rural worker's children are very complicated, among which the system…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Equal Education, Compulsory Education, Migrant Workers
Xu, Zhi-yong – Online Submission, 2009
The paper analyzes the nature of the basic education, and points out that the scarcity, disparity and exclusiveness to a certain degree form the inner reasons of school choice in China. In review of the policy evolution of governing the school choice problems, and analyzing the policy framework of the current stage, the paper holds that expanding…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, School Choice, Government Role, Foreign Countries
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Ran, Zhang – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
The term "two exemptions and one subsidy" (TEOS) has become increasingly used in China's educational domain. This article discusses the policy environment in which the term was developed, eligibility criteria, and standards and methods for subsidization. By analyzing a variety of policies, laws and regulations, and reports, the author…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, Educational Finance
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Robinson, Bernadette; Wenwu, Yi – European Journal of Education, 2009
Since 1986 when the National People's Congress ratified the Compulsory Education Law, China's achievement of nine-year compulsory basic education for its huge school-age population has been rapid and successful. However, the rate of achievement has grown unevenly across the country, reflecting the different economic development patterns of the…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Poverty, Compulsory Education, Rural Areas
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Deng, Meng; Pei, Miao – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2009
"Learning in Regular Classrooms" (LRC) has been the main strategy to universalize compulsory education for children with special educational needs in China after 1980s. Methods such as whole-class teaching combined with individual tutoring, differentiated teaching, and cooperative learning have been widely practiced in general classrooms…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Compulsory Education, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
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Lin, Tingjin – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2009
Elitism argues that the values and experiences of the political elite shape policy, while institutionalism contends that an individual's behaviour is constrained by institutional settings. This article shows that both perspectives work well overall, while offering persuasive arguments, but the former is dominated by the latter. This explains the…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Ideology, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education
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Zhang, Dongjiao – Frontiers of Education in China, 2009
The balanced development of compulsory education, with a focus on the goal of educational equality, is both a matter of policy orientation and a practical educational issue. At present, people are mostly concerned with the unbalanced state of development of compulsory education, its causes, and issues regarding its administration. Various modes of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Compulsory Education, Social Capital, Public Policy
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Ye, Lan – Frontiers of Education in China, 2009
Initiated in September 1994, "New Basic Education" first underwent a five-year Exploratory Research phase from September 1994 to May 1999, which was followed by a second five-year Developmental Research phase from September 1999 to May 2004. Thus during the past ten years, "New Basic Education" has undergone a complete research…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Theories, Compulsory Education, Research Methodology
Lewin, Keith M.; Lu, Wang – Online Submission, 2011
This study traces education and change over two decades in three areas, Tongzhou on the periphery of Beijing chosen as one of the richest 300 counties in 1990; Ansai in Yan'an which was one of the poorest 300 counties and a famous base for the 8th Route Army at the end of the Long March, and Zhaojue a poor Yi national minority area in the…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Poverty, Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries
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Baicai, Sun; Mingren, Zhao; Jaiyi, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Rural compulsory education is a very weak link in the development of China's education system. For many years, an education fiscal input mechanism with the township as the main player was adopted for supporting China's rural compulsory education. In May 2001, China's rural compulsory education was placed under an administrative system of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
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Gang, Cheng; Tao, Lin; Qiaozhen, Lin; Qinghuan, Zhu – Chinese Education and Society, 2009
Education equity is an important means for achieving social equity, but there are few empirical studies on education equity in Chinese academia owing to method limitations. This paper applies a new measurement method to the 2005/6 data of the elementary schools in Zhejiang province and argues that education finance reform in the province has…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Finance Reform, Educational Equity (Finance), Foreign Countries
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Hongyu, Zhou; Guowei, Liu – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
On December 24, 2005, the State Council issued the Circular on Deepening the Rural Compulsory Education Assured Funding Mechanism Reform, initiating the prologue to free compulsory education in China. Following on the heels of China's annulment of rural taxes and the implementation of the new rural cooperative medical system, the rural compulsory…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Rural Education
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Pingping, Hu – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
In 2006, the Chinese government conducted, in the western provinces and a few central provinces, a reform that exempted all rural compulsory education stage students from tuition and miscellaneous fees, in accordance with the measures for implementing the New Mechanism for Assured Funding for Rural Compulsory Education (hereafter "New…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Change Strategies
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Xiangyang, Tian – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
The policy of "two exemptions and one subsidy" (TEOS), which is a "popular sentiment" project, has brought life to the western region's rural education and light to impoverished families. In addition to launching the battle for the "two basics" in the western region, the overall popularization of distance education…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Equal Education
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Jianru, Guo – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
After the implementation of the "two exemptions and one subsidy" (TEOS) policy and between the spring of 2006 and 2007, China's western, central, and eastern regions introduced a new mechanism for guaranteeing rural compulsory education. This mechanism resulted in great changes in the environment for implementing TEOS and, in addition,…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Program Implementation
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