The Rural Education Action Program is part of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions.
Education
Scholarly Publications
Does Financial Aid Help Poor Students Succeed in College?
June 2013
The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China’s colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high tuition hikes.
Development Challenges, Tuition Barriers and High School Education in China
December 2009
China has made remarkable progress along the path of economic transformation over the past three decades.
Can Information and Counseling Help Students from Poor Rural Areas Go To High School? Evidence from China
June 2013
Recent studies have shown that only about two-thirds of the students from poor, rural areas in China finish junior high school and enter high school.
Other Publications
News
China’s Economic Stability Depends on More Education, Stanford Economist Says
December 2011
Without sending more kids to high school and teaching them the skills needed to support higher wages, China runs the risk of never really making it as a rich nation.
Bridging China's education gap with technology, research and policy
March 2012
FSI's Scott Rozelle says 80 percent of urban Chinese students have Internet access, compared to 2 percent of their rural peers.
Eyeglasses Boost Test Scores in Rural China
March 2014
Test scores jump following a massive effort by FSI's Rural Education Action Program to screen the vision of 20,000 children in rural China.
Events
International Workshop on Rural Education Policy
August 21, 2009
A REAP-sponsored workshop designed to target foundation and non-profit managers and executives, researchers and government officials.
Program Evaluation Training
August 22, 2009
A REAP-sponsored workshop lead by REAP affiliate Paul Gewwe (University of Minnesota) designed to target foundation and non-profit managers and executives, researchers and government officials....
Projects
"Across the Pacific" Curriculum Project
Student-aged children in the United States have a poor understanding of China's history, development, and current affairs.
English
Peer Tutoring vs. Paying for Grades
Migrant children in a suburb outside Beijing Over the past three decades, hundreds of millions of rural Chinese have migrated to cities in search of new opportunities created by China’s...
English
One Laptop Per Child
Is a One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) program an effective way to narrow the digital and educational divides in China?
English
Multimedia
Welcome to the Annual REAP Trip!
July 2014
Learn what it's like to participate in the annual REAP trip - an unparalleled chance to see REAP in action and learn firsthand about China's ongoing development challenges.
REAP at a Glance
July 2014
Learn the basics of REAP's approach and our research areas of interest in this short documentary.
The Rural Education Action Project
July 2014
What makes REAP's research approach so innovative to begin with? This documentary details how REAP's collaborative, empirical approach position the organization to alleviate poverty on a large scale.
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