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Compulsory education is strictly prohibited from enrolling students across regions in violation of regulations, primary and secondary schools strictly control the number of examinations and do not publish score rankings, and foreign teaching materials cannot be used in compulsory education...
Author: Lang Lang
Divided into key classes, fast and slow classes, "only scores but advancement", entrance exams, students not sleeping enough due to too much homework... These are all phenomena that have existed in the compulsory education stage for a long time.
On March 18, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to release the "Guidelines for Compulsory Education Quality Evaluation" (hereinafter referred to as "Evaluation Guidelines") jointly issued by the six departments, and responded to the above phenomena and topics of public concern.
Data map: On the afternoon of March 1, at Diying Street Primary School in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, students started the first class of the new semester.
On that day, under the premise of strictly implementing the requirements for epidemic prevention and control, the city’s primary schools opened and resumed classes.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Yujia
Compulsory education must overcome the tendency of "only scores and only go to school"
The "Evaluation Guidelines" require that we adhere to the problem orientation, improve the content of the evaluation, highlight the key points of the evaluation, improve the evaluation methods, coordinate and integrate the evaluation, and strive to overcome the tendency of "only scores and only go to school", and promote the formation of a good education ecology.
Adhere to education for all students, focus on comprehensive quality evaluation, promote comprehensive training, and guide each school to run well and teach each student well.
County-level party committee and government included in the evaluation of compulsory education quality
At the press conference, Dong Qi, deputy secretary of the party committee and principal of Beijing Normal University, said that one of the biggest features of this "Evaluation Guide" is that it not only evaluates schools, teachers, and students, but also includes county-level party committee governments. Evaluation object.
According to his analysis, in the current educational practice, some local party committees and governments are still not clear enough about the overall development of students, and they have not conducted in-depth special research, supervision and inspection; some local party committees and governments are more pure and simple. Pay attention to the enrollment rate of prestigious schools, and impose some unreasonable indicators on the educational administration, schools, and teachers. This has a negative impact on the ecological environment and orientation of education.
The existence of this situation is also one of the important reasons for the current difficulties in promoting and implementing quality education.
Compulsory education is strictly prohibited from enrolling students in violation of regulations
The document also requires the promotion of high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education.
Regarding the quality evaluation indicators of county-level compulsory education, the document proposes to promote the integrated development of county-level urban-rural compulsory education, strengthen the construction of rural schools and weak schools, promote group and school district-based schools, and promote the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education.
Promote full coverage of nearby enrollment without exams, standardize the simultaneous enrollment of public and private schools, strictly prohibit illegal cross-regional enrollment, and implement balanced class assignments.
Data map: On March 11th, more than 750,000 primary and middle school students in Harbin City started school. Photo by Lu Pin
Primary and secondary schools strictly control the number of exams and do not announce the ranking of results
In terms of school quality evaluation, the documents require curriculum teaching, sound homework management methods, coordinate and control the amount of homework and homework time; strictly control the number of exams, and do not publish exam results and rankings; achieve full coverage of after-school services and improve after-school services quality.
Prevent excessive academic burden.
Compulsory education is not divided into key classes
In terms of school quality evaluation, the document requires that the equal rights and interests of students should be guaranteed, the policy of exemption from examinations and the nearest enrollment policy should be implemented, and classes should be balanced, regardless of key classes, fast or slow classes; implementation of responsibilities such as dropout registration, reporting and persuasion; Issues such as illegal enrollment and forcing students to transfer and drop out.
Foreign textbooks are not allowed in the compulsory education stage
In terms of school quality evaluation, the document mentioned in the curriculum teaching that the curriculum plan must be implemented, and the nationally prescribed courses must be fully opened; standardized use of approved teaching materials, and no foreign courses or use of foreign teaching materials must be used.
In addition, it is necessary to improve the school's teaching management regulations and make overall plans for teaching; implement teaching in accordance with the curriculum standards, and there are no problems such as random increase or decrease of class hours, change of difficulty, and adjustment of schedule.
Schools should strengthen the five management of homework, sleep, mobile phones, reading materials, and physical fitness
Lu Yugang, Director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, stated at the press conference that the formulation of the "Evaluation Guidelines" has always implemented the promotion of students' all-round development and healthy growth as a red line, and attached great importance to it.
In particular, schools are required to strengthen the five managements of homework, sleep, mobile phones, reading materials, and physical fitness. These five managements seem to be trivial matters, but in fact they are not. Our strengthening of these five managements is a small cut and big reform.
These five managements are directly related to the all-round development and healthy growth of students, which are also issues of widespread concern to society.