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Education and Reform in China book cover

1st Edition

Education and Reform in China

Edited By Emily Hannum, Albert Park Copyright 2007
308 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Transformative market reforms in China since the late 1970s have improved living standards dramatically, but have also led to unprecedented economic inequality. During this period, China’s educational system was restructured to support economic development, with educational reforms occurring at a startling pace. Today, the educational system has diversified in structure, finance, and content; it... Read more

I Overviews

  1. Introduction: Market Reforms and Educational Opportunity in China

    2. Emily Hannum and Albert Park

  2. China’s Education Reform: Priorities and Implications

    3. Kai-ming Cheng

    II Marketization and Education

  3. Returns to Education in Rural China

    4. Alan De Brauw and Scott Rozelle

  4. Returns to Education in China’s Transitional Economy: Reassessment and Reconceptualization

    5. Wei Zhao and Xueguang Zhou

  5. Rising Schooling Returns in Urban China

    6. Junsen Zhang and Yaohui Zhao

  6. The Role of Education in Determining Labor Market Outcomes in Urban China

    7. Margaret Maurer-Fazio

  7. The Growth and Determinants of Literacy in China

    8. Donald Treiman

    III Education for All? School Finance and School Access

  8. Intergovernmental Grants and the Financing of Compulsory Education in China

    9. Mun Tsang

  9. Emergence of Private Schools in China: Context, Characteristics and Implications

    10. Jing Lin

  10. Patterns of School Enrollment in China in 1990

    11. Rachel Connelly and Zhenzhen Zheng

  11. School Access and Equity in Rural Tibet

    12. Gerard Postiglione

  12. Educational Attainment in Migrant Children: The Forgotten Story of Urbanization in China

    13. Yiu-Por Chen and Zai Liang

    IV The Challenge of Quality Education

  13. Learning, Motivation, and Culture Change in China

    14. Harold Stevenson

  14. Social Capital Formation through Chinese School Communities

    15. Heidi Ross and Jing Lin

  15. Academic Achievement and Engagement in Rural Western China

    16. Emily Hannum and Albert Park

  16. Challenges in Reforming Professional Development

    17. Lynn Paine and Yanping Fang

  17. Incentives and the Quality of Teachers and Schools

Weili Ding and Steven Lehrer

Biography

Albert Park is Associate Professor of Economics and Faculty Associate of the Center for Chinese Studies and International Policy Center at the University of Michigan.

Emily Hannum is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a member of the Graduate Group in Demography, the Graduate Group in Education, and the Center for East Asian Studies.

"Hannum and Park present a relevant and fitting geographically representative discussion of education and reform in China. The credentials of the editors and authors, coupled with the quantitative and qualitative studies, make the book a valuable resource for those interested in education, public policy, and development issues in China in the twenty-first century." Rhea Ashmore, Comparative Education Review, May 2008

 

'Emily Hannum, Albert Park and their contributors have given us a stateof-the-art volume, using the most sophisticated social science research methodologies, on some of the key issues the Chinese government and educational authorities have been grappling with over the last two decades.' - The China Review, Vol.8, No.2 (Fall 2008)

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