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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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Study on Provincial Compulsory Education Financial Equity Based on School-Level Data from One Province
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Gang, Cheng – Chinese Education and Society, 2009
By applying the multivariable method to elementary school data in one western province, this study shows that per-student budgetary nonpersonnel expenditure in the province is the most unequal index in terms of horizontal equity. In terms of vertical equity, the equity effect of the "poor county" designation by the central or provincial…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Compulsory Education, Rural Areas, Urban Schools
The Measurements of the Equity of Compulsory Education Finance in Zhejiang Province
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Gang, Cheng; Tao, Lin; Qiaozhen, Lin; Qinghuan, Zhu – Chinese Education and Society, 2009
Education equity is an important means for achieving social equity, but there are few empirical studies on education equity in Chinese academia owing to method limitations. This paper applies a new measurement method to the 2005/6 data of the elementary schools in Zhejiang province and argues that education finance reform in the province has…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Finance Reform, Educational Equity (Finance), Foreign Countries