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Decentralization, Money, and Power: The Case of People-Run Schools in China.
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Robinson, Jean C. – Comparative Education Review, 1986
Chinese "people-managed schools" began in the 1940s as popular voluntary village schools providing flexible relevant education to rural peasants, but are regarded today as low status and low quality. This change reflects the Chinese Communist Party's incremental move away from both decentralized decision making and populist education to…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Schools, Decentralization, Educational Development
Minban Education: The Planned Elimination of the "People-Managed" Teachers in Reforming China.
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Wang, Chengzhi – International Journal of Educational Development, 2002
China's "minban" (people-managed) schooling was an important instrument for delivering educational and political values to poor areas during Mao's era. Despite national policy aimed at eliminating poorly-qualified minban teachers by 2000, rural communities have been reluctant to dismiss such teachers, given the rural teacher shortage and…
Descriptors: Community Control, Community Schools, Educational Change, Educational Development
A Hard Country and a Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural Virginia, 1870-1920. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies.
Link, William A. – 1986
This book aims to understand Virginia's rural past through a study of its schools. Rural Virginia schools of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were affected by at least three distinctly southern influences: the legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction, regional underdevelopment and poverty, and the dilemma of racial coexistence in the…
Descriptors: Black Education, Centralization, Community Control, Compulsory Education