Educational inequality and achievement disparity: An empirical study of migrant children in China

Ma, Yuna; Hou, Xin; Huang, Jin; Wang, Weiwei; Li, Yanping; Zhou, Xiaochun; Du, Xi

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.026

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“…The SES‐achievement associations have also been widely documented in research on Chinese migrant children (Jin, Liu, & Liu, 2017; Liu et al., 2015a; Ma & Wu, 2019; Ma et al., 2018). The above‐noted investment and stress models of SES were all plausible considering the empirical evidence on Chinese migrant children.…”

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The impact of family socioeconomic status and parenting styles on children's academic trajectories: A longitudinal study comparing migrant and urban children in China

Jun

Chen

Gong

2021

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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The positive development of migrant children in China is hampered due to their unequal accessibility to quality urban education resources. This research aimed at exploring the developmental trajectories of migrant and urban children's literacy and mathematics performance, as well as the impact of family socioeconomic status (SES) and parenting styles, including the mediating effect of parenting styles, by comparing migrant children with their urban counterparts. Growth mixture modeling identified distinguishable trajectories of mathematics development for migrant children (i.e., "falling behind" and "keeping pace" groups) and urban children (i.e., "catching up" and "keeping pace" groups), as well as distinguishable trajectories of literacy development for migrant children (i.e., "jumpstarting" and "keeping pace" groups) and urban children ("falling behind" and "steadily progressing" groups). Multinomial logistic regression analyses further clarified that authoritative parenting increased the likelihood of favorable trajectories of migrant children's mathematics development and urban children's literacy and mathematics development. Family SES enhanced migrant children's mathematics development. Family SES contributed to urban children's literacy development through authoritative parenting, yet such a mediating effect was not observed for migrant children. This study highlights the importance of focusing on distinct trajectories of migrant

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 83%

The impact of family socioeconomic status and parenting styles on children's academic trajectories: A longitudinal study comparing migrant and urban children in China

Jun

Chen

Gong

2021

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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“…The spatial dimension of unequal access to education or educational inequality can be between provinces, between rural and urban areas, or between districts or counties within rural areas and cities. In practice, equal access is far from being achieved, partly because the redistribution criteria may not have taken into account all the factors leading to geographical disparities (Ma et al, 2018;Xu, 2009). Geodemographic features of education in the field of urban studies show unequal access to education in urban neighborhoods (Xiang et al, 2018).…”

Section: The Spatial Dimension Of Unequal Access To Education In Chinamentioning

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“…A series of laws and regulations were introduced to enhance access to education. These laws include the Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China (National People's Congress, 1986, 2006, the Non-state Education Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China (National People's Congress, 2002), the Program for the Development of Chinese Children (2011-2020 (State Council, 2011), and the National Mediumand Long-Term Programme for Education Reform andDevelopment (2010-2020) (State Council, 2010). These laws set out the responsibilities of the state for compulsory education.…”

Section: Education Finance Population and Resources In Compulsory Education-an Analytical Frameworkmentioning

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Child population, economic development and regional inequality of education resources in China

Peng¹,

Wan

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Children and Youth Services Review

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There is great inequality of educational resources between different provinces in China due to unbalanced economic development. Despite continued redistribution of financial resources by the central government in favor of poorer provinces, educational inequality remains. In this paper, we argue that focusing on educational resources is far from sufficient. Poorer provinces do not only suffer from a lower level of educational resources, but they also have more children to educate, i.e. a greater need for education. Combining and analyzing the data in the Sixth National Population Census of China and the official statistics on education spending and resources, we found that provincial-level variations in the child population and the child dependency ratio have made access to educational resources even more unequal given the unequal financial capacity at the provincial level. Poorer provinces face a higher child dependency ratio and have lower economic development, and these two factors jointly lead to limited educational resources. Apart from a much higher level of redistribution in favor of less developed provinces, encouraging more balanced distribution of teachers and more broadly promoting economic equality are essential to reduce inequality in educational resources in China.

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“…Turning to 2020, under the special condition of COVID-19, the Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council [28] on deepening the reform of medical security system were released, listing "Improve the cost protection mechanism for medical treatment of major epidemics" as an important content. Namely, at the time they adjust the improper prices of certain medicines, they also set up the welfare for the people who could not afford treatments.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this case, the central government was designed to offset the educational-disadvantaged area. However, the involving of Central government's power does not factors comprehensively [28], [29]. In fact, there are still many long-existing dilemma and political failure.…”

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Review on the Current Status of Uneven Distribution of Education Resources in China and Its Influence on the Economic Development

Lu¹,

Chen²,

Wu³

2020

IJTEF

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Ever since the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the country suffered from intense poverty and stubborn unbalanced resource distribution. The central government implemented various of different policies to cope with distinct historical phases, namely relief-type poverty relief, structural reform promoted poverty relief, development-oriented poverty relief, tackling key problems in poverty relief and targeted poverty alleviation respectively. On entering the TPA era, China implemented signature measurements including health, education, resettlement, traditional industrial support etc. to better solve the poverty problem from country level to the household level specifically. This paper provides an in-depth analysis towards the background of poverty alleviation as well as the measurements accordingly in order to better elaborate the situation, leading to the detailed analysis in the uneven distribution of educational resources. Gini coefficient as well as the statistics from the official websites present more academic perspectives to better explain the possible and potential influencing factors for the unbalanced distribution of educational resources, and the probable solutions will be discussed later with more details and data sets. Reasons of how the enhance of educational resources distribution structure could stimulate the local economy will be symmetrically studied in the latter session and relevant supporting policy suggestions would be provided in order to reach the goal.

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Educational inequality and achievement disparity: An empirical study of migrant children in China

Cited by 51 publications

References 37 publications

The impact of family socioeconomic status and parenting styles on children's academic trajectories: A longitudinal study comparing migrant and urban children in China

The impact of family socioeconomic status and parenting styles on children's academic trajectories: A longitudinal study comparing migrant and urban children in China

Child population, economic development and regional inequality of education resources in China

Review on the Current Status of Uneven Distribution of Education Resources in China and Its Influence on the Economic Development

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