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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Why Ethnic Minority Children Are More Likely to Drop out of School: A Cultural Capital Perspective--Evidence from Ethnic Minority Rural Communities in the Northwest
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Baicai, Sun; Jingjian, Xu – Chinese Education and Society, 2010
Using the data from a large-scale survey in Gansu province, China, the article explores the issue of school attendance among ethnic minority children from the perspective of cultural capital. We find that the rate of school attendance among ethnic minority children is substantially lower than that among ethnic Han children, but that ethnic…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Minority Group Children, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
Monitory Report of the Implementation of the Free Compulsory Education Policy
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Baicai, Sun; Mingren, Zhao; Jaiyi, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
Rural compulsory education is a very weak link in the development of China's education system. For many years, an education fiscal input mechanism with the township as the main player was adopted for supporting China's rural compulsory education. In May 2001, China's rural compulsory education was placed under an administrative system of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Compulsory Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy