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Gang, Cheng – Chinese Education and Society, 2009
By applying the multivariable method to elementary school data in one western province, this study shows that per-student budgetary nonpersonnel expenditure in the province is the most unequal index in terms of horizontal equity. In terms of vertical equity, the equity effect of the "poor county" designation by the central or provincial…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Compulsory Education, Rural Areas, Urban Schools
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Xu, Yuan – Chinese Education and Society, 2009
This study maps education inequity in Guangxi province from various perspectives and argues that the inequity generally exists among different areas and different groups within the province. The author then provides some policy suggestions for the government to correct the education imbalances. (Contains 1 table.) [This article was translated by…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Access to Education, Equal Education
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Xuedong, Ding – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Compulsory education in China's rural areas has come a long way since China adopted the policy of reform and opening up to the outside world toward the end of 1978. By 2004, compulsory education had become available and illiteracy had been eliminated among 93.6 percent of the nation's total population; the enrollment rate of school-age children…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Finance Reform, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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Brock, Andy; Wenbin, Hu; Wong, Christine – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Since 2001, the Chinese central government has begun to take on more financial responsibility for basic education beginning with a modest RMB100 million to provide free textbooks to poor students in western rural areas. This practice has been gradually expanded with the central government providing free textbooks to a widening pool of poor rural…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Rural Education, Equal Education, Educational Trends
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Liu, Xiaofei; Lu, Ke – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
This study used fifteen-year-old ninth-grade students from rural areas of five provinces in western China as samples to carry out research on the relationship between the socioeconomic status of Chinese families and student academic performance. Based on parents' educational background, occupation, family economic conditions, and other factors,…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Compulsory Education, Academic Achievement, Rural Areas
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Guorui, Fan – Chinese Education and Society, 2006
The market economy and education is a hot topic in today's education circles and has been relevant to the country's academic and sociopolitical environment since the end of the 1970s. Discussions on "truth criterion" in the theoretical circle and discussions on the essence and attributes of education in the educational circle prepare the…
Descriptors: Free Enterprise System, Critical Theory, Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education
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Chinese Education and Society, 2008
This is a policy that aims at improving teaching practices in rural schools in China. Normal university students are encouraged to participate in educational aid work in disadvantaged schools as a fulfillment of their teaching internship. The policy supports the policies of free compulsory education for rural school issued in the past. In…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Rural Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Compulsory Education
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Yanqing, Ding – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Beginning in 2006, the "two exemptions and one subsidy" (TEOS) policy was integrated into the New Mechanism for Assured Funding for Rural Compulsory Education (hereafter the "New Mechanism"). The New Mechanism includes TEOS, raising the standard of public expenditure guarantees for rural compulsory education stage schools,…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Performance Factors, Policy Analysis
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Jin, Yongli; Zhang, Hong – International Education Studies, 2008
Compulsory education is the fundamental education for citizens and is the source of state power, which radically determines thought level, political awareness, cultural sense and production ability of the entire nation. Therefore, to popularize compulsory education is the root of a country. This paper explains the meanings of compulsory education,…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Academic Standards, Program Costs, Comparative Education
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Zhai, Bo – Frontiers of Education in China, 2007
Educational balance refers to the ideal that educational organizations and people who receive education enjoy equal treatment in educational activities under the thought of fair education and principle of educational equity, and the educational policy as well as legal system that guarantee its actual operations. The essence of balanced education…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Equal Education, Supply and Demand, Foreign Countries
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Deng, Meng; Harris, Kymberly – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2008
China has initiated experiments on "Learning in Regular Classrooms" (LRC) since the mid-1980s in response to the international trend of inclusive education and the domestic need of serving large numbers of children with disabilities. LRC is the main strategy to promote compulsory education for youngsters with disabilities. Despite the…
Descriptors: General Education, Compulsory Education, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Zhou, Minglang, Ed.; Hill, Ann Maxwell, Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
This volume is the first to comprehensively examine Chinese's affirmative action policies in the critical area of minority education, the most important conduit to employment and economic success in the People's Republic of China after the economic reforms begun in the late 1970s. This book contains four parts. Part I, "Debating China's…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Consolidated Schools, Indigenous Populations, Compulsory Education
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Jiwu, Liu – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1992
Literacy efforts in China have the following characteristics: (1) awareness of the necessity to eliminate illiteracy; (2) active participation of all levels; (3) combination of literacy education with skills acquisition; (4) emphasis on efficiency; and (5) compulsory schooling and prevention and follow-up efforts among the young. (SK)
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Rongwei, Zhang; Xiaobai, Shi – Chinese Education and Society, 2006
The Second Meeting of the Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opened in Beijing at 3:00 P.M. on March 3, 2004, and closed on the afternoon of March 12. The Second Meeting of the Tenth National People's Congress (NPC) opened on March 5, 2004, in Beijing and closed on the afternoon of March 14…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Educational Resources, Educational Finance
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Ding, Yi; Yang, Ling-Yan; Xiao, Fei; Van Dyke, Don C. – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2008
When William Moore, a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, established the first special school in China in 1874, the country began her long and circuitous journey toward establishing formal educational services for individuals with special needs. Special education in China developed slowly on the infertile soil of continual wars, political instability,…
Descriptors: Psychological Services, Special Schools, Rural Urban Differences, Foreign Countries
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