Leveling the Little Pagoda: The Impact of College Examinations, and Their Elimination, on Rural Education in China

Andreas, Joel

doi:10.1086/379840

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“…Without the cultural skills and knowledge needed at school, rural students face greater obstacles to academic success (Andreas 2004).…”

Section: Context Of Chinamentioning

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Network diversity and educational attainment: a case study in China

Fung

2015

J. Chin. Sociol.

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This qualitative study looked at network diversity and educational attainment. In the summer of 2008, in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 undergraduate students from two of the most prestigious universities in China-Peking University and Tsinghua University. Twenty respondents came from a rural background and the other 10 were from urban areas. It was found that the educational support networks of the rural students were generally larger than those of their urban peers. This is because they faced more barriers than the urban students and their network members were less able to provide them with resources, so they needed more supporters in their journey to elite colleges. The findings indicate that rural students do not get enough help from the state and therefore have to rely on their own resources to achieve academic mobility.

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“…Without the cultural skills and knowledge needed at school, rural students face greater obstacles to academic success (Andreas 2004).…”

Section: Context Of Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Network diversity and educational attainment: a case study in China

Fung

2015

J. Chin. Sociol.

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“…Rather, programmes with part-work part-study schemes for the alliance of workers and peasants were prioritised, which "aimed at achieving mass literacy, providing local initiative, expanding rural educational opportunities, [and] encouraging curricular and structural innovation" (Saywell, 1980, p. 2). Mao also ordered the abolition of school entrance examinations, which had long been a key component of education in China (Andreas, 2004). The new admission system heavily stressed the candidates' class backgrounds and political loyalties.…”

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The evolution of shadow education in China: From emergence to capitalisation

Feng¹

2021

HERJ

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Private supplementary tutoring, or shadow education, has become a global phenomenon, and China is among the countries where it is most prevalent. By 2019, China’s private tutoring industry had grown into a prominent sector providing educational services to millions of students and parents. This article examines the development process of shadow education in China, and explores the path that led to its current prevalence. Drawing on existing literature and publicly available data sources, the article maps key stages of shadow education’s evolution and its changing characteristics. The analysis suggests that China’s private tutoring industry has undergone three stages of evolution: first, the emergence stage, when small numbers of individuals started to provide tutoring on an informal basis; second, the industrialisation stage, when institutionalised providers became primary providers of more formal types of tutoring services; and third, the capitalisation stage, when major providers of shadow education evolved into part of the educational capital market. The discussion argues that the development trajectory of shadow education occurred in line with the continued marketisation of education in China. The article also addresses the implications of capitalised shadow education as it enters a more intensified and controversial phase of development.

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“…The education system in urban China was severely disrupted during the Cultural Revolution, while secondary education in rural areas experienced a tremendous expansion from the mid-1960s to the late-1970s (Han 2001, Andreas 2004. 33 The goal of the expansion was to achieve universal junior high education in the countryside by 1985 (Pepper 1990).…”

Section: Rural Education Expansion Programmentioning

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Arrival of Young Talent: The Send-Down Movement and Rural Education in China

Chen

Fan

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American Economic Review

186

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This paper estimates the effects on rural education of the send-down movement during the Cultural Revolution, when about 16 million urban youth were mandated to resettle in the countryside. Using a county-level dataset compiled from local gazetteers and population censuses, we show that greater exposure to the sent-down youths significantly increased rural children’s educational achievement. This positive effect diminished after the urban youth left the countryside in the late 1970s but never disappeared. Rural children who interacted with the sent-down youths were also more likely to pursue more-skilled occupations, marry later, and have smaller families than those who did not. (JEL I21, J13, J24, N35, O15, P36, R23)

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Leveling the Little Pagoda: The Impact of College Examinations, and Their Elimination, on Rural Education in China

Cited by 34 publications

References 15 publications

Network diversity and educational attainment: a case study in China

Network diversity and educational attainment: a case study in China

The evolution of shadow education in China: From emergence to capitalisation

Arrival of Young Talent: The Send-Down Movement and Rural Education in China

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