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Author : Wu Xiaoxin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134675941

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School Choice in China explores the major characteristics of schooling options in China, highlighting how largely middle-class parents exploit their cultural, economic and social capital for their children's admission into choice schools. It highlights how payments such as choice fees, donations, prize-winning certificates and awards, as well as the use of guanxi, result in Chinese school choice as a parent-driven, bottom-up movement. The author also explores how schools and local governments cash in on the school choice fever in order to obtain significant economic returns, leading to policies that accommodate the needs of mostly middle-class families. He argues that although this system seems to create winners among the parties involved, it exacerbates the educational inequality that already exists in Chinese society. Chapters include: Positional competition for cultural capital Exploitation of social capital Economics of school choice Class reproduction through parental choice This book is not simply a detailed analysis of Chinese school choice practices, but also a study of the competitive middle class search for advantage for their children. As such it will be beneficial to undergraduates, postgraduates, education professionals, policy makers, and anyone with an interest in education, sociology, social policy, and the rise and future of China.

Author : Wu Xiaoxin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134675879

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School Choice in China explores the major characteristics of schooling options in China, highlighting how largely middle-class parents exploit their cultural, economic and social capital for their children's admission into choice schools. It highlights how payments such as choice fees, donations, prize-winning certificates and awards, as well as the use of guanxi, result in Chinese school choice as a parent-driven, bottom-up movement. The author also explores how schools and local governments cash in on the school choice fever in order to obtain significant economic returns, leading to policies that accommodate the needs of mostly middle-class families. He argues that although this system seems to create winners among the parties involved, it exacerbates the educational inequality that already exists in Chinese society. Chapters include: Positional competition for cultural capital Exploitation of social capital Economics of school choice Class reproduction through parental choice This book is not simply a detailed analysis of Chinese school choice practices, but also a study of the competitive middle class search for advantage for their children. As such it will be beneficial to undergraduates, postgraduates, education professionals, policy makers, and anyone with an interest in education, sociology, social policy, and the rise and future of China.

Author : Yingxin Zhang
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Public policy
ISBN :

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Since the 1990s, school choice has become a common phenomenon in China. Parents choose schools for their kids through various channels: spending money, abusing power for privilege, or purchasing houses in specific educational districts. These practices, however, are not only unrecognized by the Chinese government, but they also violate the Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China. Legally, each school-age student must attend a school in his/her districts determined by the principle of proximity-based admission. Existing work on school choice in China has provided valuable insight into the factors behind the exercise of school choice and its adverse effects on Chinese society. Basically, Chinese families’ school choice practices are strongly correlated with their economic, social and political capital. Socially, school choice has led to inequality in education. Prior studies generally have not reflected the short-term effects of school choice on students themselves. I hypothesize that school choice improves students’ academic achievement but has a negative impact on students’ short-term well-being. My research contributes to the current study by evaluating whether Chinese students at the stage of compulsory education benefit from school choice as parents expect. Using data from the China Education Panel Survey, I find results that are not exactly consistent with my original hypotheses. School choice does negatively impact students’ short-term well-being, and it is also negatively correlated with students’ academic achievement. The results imply that parents should not be too optimistic about the impact of school choice. Not only do their children fare worse academically, but they also tend to be less happy than their peers. Policymakers should address the conflicts between equality and educational quality in making future decisions on school choice phenomenon.

Author : Ji Ruan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319407546

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This book focuses on the use of guanxi (Chinese personal connections) in everyday urban life: in particular, how and why people develop different types of social capital in their guanxi networks and the role of guanxi in school choice. Guanxi takes on a special significance in Chinese societies, and is widely-discussed and intensely-studied phenomenon today. In recent years in China, the phenomenon of parents using guanxi to acquire school places for their children has been frequently reported by the media, against the background of the Chinese Communist Party’s crackdown on corruption. From a sociological perspective, this book reveals how and why parents manage to do so. Ritual capital refers to an individual's ability to use ritual to benefit and gain resources from guanxi.

Author : Mingyuan Gu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811040117

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This book unravels the mysteries of the Chinese school system to enable international scholars to better understand the logic of basic education in China. By collecting the latest, first-hand empirical data, it outlines a panoramic and vivid portrait of Chinese schools from principals’, teachers’, students’ and parents’ perspectives, including descriptions of their daily lives. It also interprets different stakeholders’ duties and explains the unique characteristics and operation model of Chinese schools. It is of interest to all those who are concerned with the current situation and the future of the Chinese school system and basic education in China, especially international researchers, policymakers, and parents wanting to know what is really happening in schools.

Author : David Nathan Plank
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807742910

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The first cross-national comparative study on school choice policies, this volume features prominent scholars who analyze experiences in countries around the world, England, Chile, South Africa, the Czech Republic, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden. Together, they answer such important questions as: Why are policies that expand educational options being adopted in such a diverse set of countries? Why have governments in widely varying circumstances come to view school choice as an apt response to educational dilemmas? What have we learned about the impacts of these policies on existing educational systems and the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom? The analyses presented here illuminate school choice policies as a critical worldwide development in education, noting both similarities and differences across countries. This volume broadens our understanding of school choice on the world stage while exploring implications for education policy in the United States.

Author : Corey A. DeAngelis
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 10,28 MB
Release : 2020-10-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1948647923

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Are there legitimate arguments to prevent families from choosing the education that works best for their children? Opponents of school choice have certainly offered many objections, but for decades they have mainly repeated myths either because they did not know any better or perhaps to protect the government schooling monopoly. In these pages, 14 of the top scholars in education policy debunk a dozen of the most pernicious myths, including “school choice siphons money from public schools,” “choice harms children left behind in public schools,” “school choice has racist origins,” and “choice only helps the rich get richer.” As the contributors demonstrate, even arguments against school choice that seem to make powerful intuitive sense fall apart under scrutiny. There are, frankly, no compelling arguments against funding students directly instead of public school systems. School Choice Myths shatters the mythology standing in the way of education freedom.

Author : Thomas Koinzer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 3658171049

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Marketization and privatization in compulsory education have spread around the globe. School choice is seen by many to be the panacea to develop the quality of schools and improve school systems worldwide. Additionally in many countries several types of private schools expand and change the school landscapes. The articles of the anthology analyse and discuss these changes in several countries and ask to what extent and in which ways school choice and the growth of private school play a role for education policies and education systems. Which political and civil society actors are active in formulating and promoting school choice and private schooling? And to what extent does the expansion of private schools and school choice address questions of educational inequality and social segregation.

Author : Robert A. Fox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1119082358

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The Wiley Handbook of School Choice presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing the wide range of alternatives to traditional public schools available in contemporary US society. A comprehensive collection of the latest research findings on school choices in the US, including charter schools, magnet schools, school vouchers, home schooling, private schools, and virtual schools Viewpoints of both advocates and opponents of each school choice provide balanced examinations and opinions Perspectives drawn from both established researchers and practicing professionals in the U.S. and abroad and from across the educational spectrum gives a holistic outlook Includes thorough coverage of the history of traditional education in the US, its current state, and predictions for the future of each alternative school choice