Educational Equity Policy in China - Concept and Practice

This book investigates the educational equity in China from multiple perspectives, including rural and urban educational equity, interschool educational equity, Eastern and Western educational equity and administrative policies related to the educational equity. All those perspectives concentrate on examining the comprehensive development of the educational equity in contemporary China. In addition, this book also presents specific historical and cultural shifts for policymakers and stakeholders to offer an in-depth understanding of the educational equity strategy in a long term.

Eryong Xue, Ph.D. Changjiang Scholar of Ministry of Education, is Professor at the China Institute of Education and Social Development, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, where he serves as Chief Scholar from the Ministry of Education of the Education Thoughts of President Xi Jinping. His research interests include education policy and law, comparative education policy and equality of education. He has published over 160 articles, monographs, reports and policy briefs in these areas. 

Jian Li, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the China Institute of Education and Social Development, Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University. While pursuing her Ph.D. at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA, Dr. Li served as Senior Research Consultant for the Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Inclusion and Diversity and in associate researcher positions at the Project on Academic Success, Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University. Dr. Li's general areas of scholarship are education policy and law, and comparative education policy. Dr. Li has published over 40 articles, monographs and book chapters.