China News Week: Students are not "white mice" in education reform experiments
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Educational reforms from social reality are often changed from the end of the problem, and this "reform" is ultimately undertaken by the students. Fundamentally, only the school is indeed an independent educational unit rather than a "administrative unit" in the administrative system, and there is a condition that is truly "quality education" and abollect the exam.
Any reform of the education system, the system, the most affected, the most direct "parties" is the students. Education is the cause of "100 years of tree people", it is important, so the relevant system, the changes in the system must be cautious. Because of the initiative, once the loss is missing, even if it is "just a few years", it is likely to be "harm life" for the affected students.
A few years ago, when Beijing has just decided to implement the primary and secondary computer distribution of primary schools, I have written many times, because China's education pattern does not have fundamental changes, higher education and primary and secondary schools due to a considerable period of time. Quality education will belong to "scarce resources" for a long time. How to assign this scarce resource, is an important issue to solve the "institutional design" of any educational system, and is a fundamental background of my country 's Education "Institutional Design".
The initial intention of "computer-distributed" is to mitigate the reform of the study and burden of middle and primary school students. In the actual situation, there is a relationship between the power, and the children become "school students", the majority has no relationship. Parents also want to do every way to "pull the relationship" to pay, let your child "choose school".
The reason why the main relationship is because "selecting school" is strictly said that it is not legal, so if there is no "relationship", there is no money to pay, use the majority of parents to say that "I want to pay these tens of thousands of money and ask grandfather" . Because of the chose calibration, it is not a public clear code, according to the "relationship", the size of the power determines how much "choosing the calibration", there are few thousand yuan, more than a hundred thousand or even 100,000 yuan. In this "operation" process, it is inevitably full of amazing shades, and breeds serious corruption. More seriously, this policy actually deprives the "high scores" of the poor people with the "high score" that can enjoy quality education. A few years of practice prove that the author "unfortunately speaking", the computer sent a short-term exposure, so the majority of the family can not help but sign "or the test is good".
In the face of this situation, the relevant departments have recently decided to adhere to the "computer" as the main mode, but implement "diversified" selection method, but this "multi-diversity" has stipulated that the exam must be excluded. In fact, this "multi-diversity" will make students, parents are more embarrassed.
Because in the "transaction" of the students, parents and schools, the information they have in the "transaction" in the competent department is asymmetrical, this asymmetry will cause the interests of the transactions. Students and their parents are not as good as schools and their competent authorities, so the school can always obtain all kinds of extra benefits, damage the interests of students and parents. Therefore, reducing "information profit" is a basic measures for maintaining resource allocation equity. The more simple and clear, if the test is considered, the less symmetrical extent, the more faire in the selection process; the standard is more complex "multi-diversity", the larger the information is asymmetric, the more unfair selection process will be.
It is definitely, the starting point of the education authorities so established the policy is definitely to correct the disadvantages of the exam, rather than "expand the information asymmetry", and intensity is not good. However, the history of the history, the good policy is repeatedly hitting the walls in the implementation of the reality of the society, and even if it is appropriate. The difference between the education level and teaching conditions between public middle schools is great. The school is actually a "administrative organ" under the supervisor of the education administrative department. Social supervision is still weak, and all kinds of corruption is more than ... this social reality. Other selection methods other than the test will be made more.
Obviously, the fundamental crux of education is not in education itself, but in social structure and system. There is no corresponding social, political system change, education is difficult to conduct fundamental changes, and it is difficult to truly implement quality education. If it is strongly educated "single soldier" to carry out severe change, it will only make problems more serious. We should of course pursue "better", but first must prevent "worse". Because education and society is a secretly unsolicible whole, it cannot be separated from society to education and education, and the quality education is actually a social engineering. The major reform of the education system requires the giant change between the social structure. The reform of education is actually a hair. A comprehensive change of body. Fundamentally, only the school is indeed an independent educational unit rather than a "administrative unit" in the administrative system, and after the political system reform of power, the political system reform has made substantive progress, there is only "quality education" The conditions of abolishing the exam.
Now various "teaching reform" measures have been continuously introduced, and the reform of the realities of society is often changed from the end of the problem, and this "reform" cost is ultimately undertaken by the students, and the students have become a "white mouse" of policy experiments. In order to make the health development of education, students really become the beneficiary of reform rather than "experimental products", the planning and institutional design of teaching reform should be more careful, cut, the time, progress, steps, steps, especially those with society, etc. Degree, must be considered. Since the education reform is close to the interests of thousands of households, the introduction of any major measures should have been widely discussed.
In fact, education is originally a public utility.
Source: China News Weekly No. 207
