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Educating Migrant Children in Urban Public Schools in China

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This book investigates the implementation of education policy for rural-to-urban migrant children in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The focus is placed upon those migrant children studying in urban public schools. For more than a decade, integrating migrant children into the urban public education system has been the ultimate goal of the central government, but it is yet to become an educational reality and continues to pose serious challenges to policy implementation across the country. This introductory chapter first provides an overview of the background in relation to education for migrant children. The discussion centres on three issues: rural-to-urban migration, the compulsory education system and policy implementation in China. A discussion of these issues can help to understand better how the problems relating to the education of migrant children came into existence and why it has been a critical issue in the last decade. Then, this chapter will provide an overview of the research methods. The chapter will end by setting out the outline of the entire book.

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    This is an out-of-date version of the Compulsory Education Law and was replaced by a revised version of the law in 2006.

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Hu, B. (2018). Introduction. In: Educating Migrant Children in Urban Public Schools in China. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1147-5_1

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