From Reuters: It’s children like 10-year-old Xiao Wei, one of dozens of kids tearing around a dusty village schoolyard, who are being left behind by China’s economic boom as hidden costs, long distances to secondary schools and family needs mean a yawning gap in education opportunities for rural and urban children. After years of focus […]
Read MoreIn the Guardian, Tania Branigan reports on the plight of the children of migrant workers, who are not entitled to an education: The contradictions of the hukou system, designed for a 1950s planned economy, become more painful...
Read MoreStudents Xiaoxuan Li and Michael Zang traveled through villages in rural areas of Shandong and Inner Mongolia to investigate problems in Chinese rural education, in addition to teaching English classes to elementary and middle school students. They contributed the following photos and essay to CDT. (Students in Inner Mongolia) A Generation of Rural Teachers Challenged […]
Read Morefrom People’s Daily Online (link) Wu Bingbing, a poor rural middle school student in east China’s Jiangxi Province, was overjoyed at the good news that he wouldn’t need to worry about tuition any more. He heard the news from the principal of his school, as he is ill-informed about events at the ongoing annual parliamentary […]
Read MoreSurveillance in Chinese cities is ubiquitous, with highly visible security cameras trained on most every intersection, public space, and building, but over the past decade, it has been seeping into the countryside as well. In an...
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While Chinese officials have reportedly denied the existence of Xinjiang’s re-education...
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The hukou, or household registration, system has long divided China’s urban and rural...
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Following up on the central government’s earlier promises to reform the controversial hukou...
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China Rural Library, a grass-roots non-profit group promoting literacy and education in...
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At The New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow spoke with Yong Zhao, professor of education at the...
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