China News Service, Nanning, May 20 (Huang Lingyan, Yang Qiang) "There is a clear gap in the quality of school education. In the face of school selection, the people are very anxious and think that children cannot lose on the starting line. This is not a trivial matter." 2020 National On the eve of the two sessions, Qian Xueming, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Political Consultative Conference, and chairman of the Democratic Construction Autonomous Region, said in an interview.
The problem of uneven development of compulsory education, such as "difficult to choose a school", has become a hot and difficult point of concern in society in recent years. Qian Xueming submitted a proposal for a "trial teacher" salary cap "and principal" segmentation system "during the two sessions of the National Congress last year. He said that the social injustice brought about by the current imbalance in education still caused people a "headache." Educational fairness is the foundation of social fairness, and fairness of enrollment is fairness at the starting point of the educational chain. To achieve the national goal of compulsory education being basically balanced in 2020, effective reform measures must be taken to grasp the key and find a correct path.
The imbalance in compulsory education is not only manifested between urban and rural areas and cities, but also between urban areas and schools. Especially within the same city, there are huge differences between different schools. According to the "single school planning" approach, "school district housing" and "difficult school selection" are common phenomena in various places.
"Early years of compulsory education are in poor conditions. After the reform and opening up, the country attached importance to education and started to establish model schools. It is expected that the way to build some high-quality schools will be 'point and face', but in fact it is not that simple." Qian Xueming believes that When excellent teachers and principals are too concentrated in a few schools, the better schools develop the better, the weaker the weaker.
It is understood that the Ministry of Education has implemented the "multi-school zoning" approach in cities above the sub-provincial level since 2017, trying to resolve the problem of "school district housing". "Multi-school planning" is simply a community corresponding to multiple elementary school junior high schools, so that families who buy a school district are not sure which school they can go to, and which elementary school junior high school students eventually enroll in, use "computer allocation" Distribution.
Qian Xueming believes that this approach seems to reflect social fairness, but it will make some students who could have gone to school nearby be forced to "run more," or even "leave the distance".
He said that the unreasonable allocation of educational resources is the root cause of the problems and phenomena of "difficult school selection" and "school district housing". Excellent teachers are not enriched in weak schools, and excellent principals are not used to improve the management of weak schools. If we do not change the current situation of outstanding teacher principals being too concentrated, and instead adopt a "multi-school drawing" lottery to select schools, obviously we have not grasped the key to the problem.
Qian Xueming said that to promote the balanced development of compulsory education and solve the problem of "difficult school selection", the basic path should be to distribute excellent teacher resources evenly to each school; for the principal, a good school is relatively difficult to manage and a poor school management Difficult, it is necessary for the outstanding principals to reflect their value in the process of improving the school level of the weak schools, rather than "being an official" in a good school with excellent conditions, so that students are forced to choose schools.
To this end, Qian Xueming proposed to draw on the American Professional Basketball League (NBA) "salary cap" idea to balance the allocation of excellent teacher resources, and directly link the total teacher salary to the number of students enrolled by the school, so that the school can only use high, medium and low Teachers with different salary levels. To get a high salary, an excellent teacher can only choose to teach in a school with a high-paying position and make it evenly distributed in different schools.
In the balanced allocation of headmaster resources, you can learn from the "level system" method, so that the headmaster's salary is directly linked to the improvement of school management and school rankings. By guiding excellent principals to serve in weak schools in the lower rankings, their management level is improved, and balanced development between different schools is promoted.
Qian Xueming said that the most urgent task is to change the concept of running a "model school" in the past, and to reform the system and mechanism to guide the balanced distribution of excellent teachers and principal resources and promote the balanced development of compulsory education. (Finish)