Primary and secondary school teachers are the cornerstone of basic education, and reducing their workload is essential to protecting the rights and interests of teachers and promoting the quality of education. This article uses Multiple Streams Model as a research framework and finds that primary school teachers' long-term overloaded workload and unreasonable work structure and the overburdening of primary and secondary school teachers have aroused widespread concern in the society, forming a problem Streams; the high attention paid by government officials, the advice of experts and scholars, and the appeals of grass-roots teachers constitute a policy Streams; the party's political philosophy, the state's education governance philosophy, and the civil public opinion and The party's political concept, the state's concept of education governance, and civil opinion and public sentiment form the politics Streams. The three streams are interactively coupled, and the policy window is opened.

Qizhang Luo. A Study on the Policy Agenda of Burden Reduction for Primary and Secondary School Teachers in China from the Perspective of Multiple Streams Model. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 6: 125-130. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2024.060620.

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