Two Decades of Basic Education in Rural China

New Frontiers of Educational Research Lu Wang Keith Lewin Two Decades of Basic Education in Rural China Transitions and Challeng ...

New Frontiers of Educational Research Series editors Zhongying Shi, Beijing, China Ronghuai Huang, Beijing, China Zuoyu Zhou, Be ...

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Lu Wang · Keith Lewin 1 3 Two Decades of Basic Education in Rural China Transitions and Challenges for Development ...

Lu Wang Institute of International and Comparative Education Beijing Normal University Beijing, China ISSN 2195-3473 ISSN 2195-3 ...

v When Profs. Keith Lewin, Qu Hengchang, Lu Wang and I discussed the possi- bility of revisiting the three counties where we did ...

vi Foreword The landscape of the nine-year compulsory education in China has been trans- formed since 1991 when we first did the ...

Foreword vii interest to those working for the provision of universal basic education throughout the world and should encourage ...

ix Preface China has developed more rapidly than any other place in the world over the last two decades. In the 1980s the transf ...

x Preface graduate successfully from lower secondary. Amongst these are a disproportionate numbers of girls, HIV orphans, and me ...

xi Acknowledgements This research monograph benefitted from the contributions of many colleagues over an extended period of time ...

xii Acknowledgements were graduate students from Institute of International and Comparative Education, Beijing Normal University ...

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xix Acronyms GDP Gross Domestic Product GPCR Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution MOE Ministry of Education PRC People’s Republ ...

xxi List of Figures Figure 1.1 Enrolments from 1978 to 2012. Source State Education Commission Statistics various years ........ ...

xxii List of Figures More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/ 1 Introduction to the Development of ...