1. RURAL EDUCATION: STRUGGLING WITH BARE ESSENTIALS.
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Feng Jianhua
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EDUCATION , *RURAL education , *EDUCATIONAL sociology , *SOCIOLOGY , *URBAN education - Abstract
The article presents information on the status of rural education in China. Zhang Yulin, Associate Professor of the Sociology Department of Nanjing University believes rural education faces three major problems--more students leaving school, default on teachers' salaries and severe lack of education funds. The dropout rate in rural junior middle schools ranges from 20 to 50 percent, indicating the education right of rural children has been severely violated. A split character of the education policy has resulted in a huge gap between rural and urban education and two different school systems that favor "key" urban schools over "ordinary" rural schools. On January 27, 2005, the Ministry of Education announced that it would fulfill the requirement of the Central Government by using most of the increased educational funds in rural education in a bid to push forward compulsory education nationwide.
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- 2005