城市让教育更美好——再论城镇化进程中的农村教育

City Makes Life Better——A Re-discussion of Rural Education in the Process of Urbanization

农村学校的"空壳化"与城区学校的"大班额"现象,是城市化的伴随物,是农民自发矫治城乡教育不均的结果。城区优质教育资源下乡难,农村学校留人难,把发展农村教育的重点由乡村转向县城镇,集中力量扩大县城教育资源,既合潮流,又顺民意。农村教育城镇化的当下目标是农村初中县城化,长远目标是城乡一体化。不少地方的实践已经证明这个设想是可行的。中国农村教育正面临路向何方、怎么去走的重大抉择,亟需理论研究的创新与科学的政策决策。

The depopulation of rural schools and the over-expansion of classes in urban schools is a phenomenon resulting from urbanization,and from the peasants＇ initiatives to correct the educational inequity between urban and rural areas.It corresponds to the trend and caters to the expectation of the people concerned that we lay emphasis of developing rural education on the transfer of schools from villages to towns of counties,thus making intensified efforts to expand the educational resources in towns of counties.The practice of many a place has proved this conception feasible.Rural education in china is now to make a serious choice of what direction to take and how to follow the direction,hence it needs initiatives in theoretical research and scientific decisions and policies.