The Research on the Policy of the Rural Elementary School Merging Affect Education Fairness for Rural Areas

The central government introduced the policy in 2001 , the structural readjustment of the rural primary schools across the country have carried out large-scale rural primary structural readjustment of . It is in the context of this policy through a sample survey of rural primary school in Shaanxi, Ningxia , access to basic information in the area of rural primary school and individual students . Making the necessary data processing , the use of descriptive analysis , respectively, from government investment , family education costs , regional differences , and student achievement in terms of changes to adjust the results of the policies carried out a statistical description of primary layout structure , and thus impact on the fairness of education in rural areas are analyzed . This study shows that the layout before and after the structural adjustment , the government did not due to the structural readjustment of the school to increase investment , especially with the main campus ; education costs of students' families has not changed much ; mountains and plains area is still in the basic education gap changed little ; merged poor academic performance of school students in the the merge main school and unconsolidated school students , and after the merger , the trend of expansion . Overall , the relative weakness of the two groups , namely the date school students and mountainous students , before and after the merger convergence . From the point of view of fairness , all the gap stems from the pre-merger , and therefore in terms of primary education in rural areas , efforts to improve the existing differences , in order to achieve a relatively fair . However , the introduction of this policy is still caused some problems . Such as rural pupils to school the distance road safety problem , the pupils of the boarding .