Education is one of the important components of basic public services that contribute to equalizing every citizen's right to education and life-changing purposes. Education has been popularized in urban areas but has lagged in rural areas due to significant differences in educational resources. In addition, urbanization has increased the population's spatial mobility, and the migrant population is increasingly becoming an important part of the total urban population. However, migrant workers' children are still less educated than resident children. Society is also paying more attention to the education of migrant children. This paper first clarifies the meaning of educational equity. Secondly, this paper focuses on the educational inequity problem under the urban-rural household registration system. This perspective focuses primarily on inequality in urban versus rural education resource allocation, migrant versus inflow education, and college entrance examination policy. These three inequalities are measured through fairness in the starting point, the process, and the outcome of education. Again, this paper compares the educational situation in the United States and provides experiences that can be drawn from to make suggestions for enhancing educational equity in China. Finally, based on the previous analysis, this paper addresses the problems in educational equity by improving the household registration system to make suggestions for improvement.

Xu Jia. Using the Hukou System to Alleviate Inequity in Education of China. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 15: 13-19. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.061503.

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