21st Century New Education Library - Complete Book on Education Deburdening Operation (Vol. 1 & 2)

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Features: Authored by Liu Hanzhi, a Ph.D. in Educational Sciences from Beijing Normal University specializing in primary and secondary education research, and edited with the participation of authoritative education experts from institutions such as Beijing Normal University, Peking University, and the Central Institute for Educational Research. From the perspective of comprehensively improving students' quality, the book discusses the importance and urgency of reducing the burden on students. Practical solutions are proposed for improving the teaching evaluation system, reforming the examination and enrollment systems, enhancing collaboration between schools, families, and communities in implementing burden reduction, adjusting the curriculum structure and system of primary and secondary schools, and optimizing classroom teaching models. This book provides highly operational solutions and measures for addressing the challenges, ambiguities, and blind spots in reducing educational burden, serving as a reference for school principals and teachers.
Rich Case Studies: Selects representative success stories from five countries—Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States—in their new primary and secondary education initiatives. Accompanied by insightful and vivid interpretations, these cases provide valuable references for implementing educational burden reduction.
The excessive burden on primary and secondary students has long been a persistent issue in China's basic education, drawing attention from the Party and government, academia, and the public. In recent years, governments at all levels, education departments, and primary and secondary schools have taken corresponding measures to alleviate the burden on students. However, the problem of excessive student burden still persists to varying degrees in many regions, with some areas experiencing particularly severe cases, now posing an obstacle to the comprehensive advancement of quality-oriented education.
On January 3, 2000, the Ministry of Education issued Notice No. 1 of 2000, "Emergency Notice on Reducing the Burden on Students in Primary Schools." On January 7, the Ministry held the New Millennium Conference—"TV Meeting on Reducing the Excessive Burden on Primary and Secondary Students"—designating the reduction of student burden as the top priority for the new millennium. On February 1, General Secretary Jiang Zemin delivered a speech titled "On Education," highlighting that the heavy burden on students has led to significant psychological pressure, undermining their healthy development. The speech, delivered from the perspective of national prosperity and ethnic rejuvenation, offered profound and incisive insights into a series of major issues in China's education system. It holds great and far-reaching significance for implementing the strategy of revitalizing the nation through science and education, adhering to the correct educational direction, fully carrying out the Party's educational policies, and achieving the grand goal of socialist modernization.
Reducing the burden on students is essential for improving the overall quality of the nation, fostering healthy development in the younger generation, enhancing their innovative and practical abilities, and strengthening China's competitiveness in the 21st century. It is also necessary for consolidating the achievements of universal nine-year compulsory education, improving its standards, and ensuring its quality. Burden reduction has been a central theme of China's government efforts to strengthen quality-oriented education and comprehensively advance educational reform in the new millennium.