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Frontiers in Educational Research, 2023, 6(25); doi: 10.25236/FER.2023.062501.

Exploring the Motivations, Internal Causes, and Development Suggestions of China's "Double Reduction" Education Policy

Author(s)

Jianfeng Li1, Dexiang Yang2

Corresponding Author:
Jianfeng Li
Affiliation(s)

1School of Economics and Management, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310018, China

2School of Economics and Management, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310018, China

Abstract

The proposal of the "double reduction" policy in 2021 has aroused widespread concern from all walks of life. While attacking the out-of-school education and counseling institutions with serious capital expansion, they also put forward long-term development suggestions and requirements for school education. Through sorting out the influence of off-campus teaching and supporting institutions on the development of education fairness in the development process, reviewing the relevant policies for reducing students' burdens, and exploring the root causes of the policy. Analyzing the implementation of the policy from two aspects: promoting and strengthening the fair development of quality education, and adjusting and improving the population structure is a necessary choice to solve the education of people's livelihood, and put forward new requirements for the development of school education, family education, and social education.

Keywords

the "Double Reduction" policy; equity in education; out-of-school training; public education system

Cite This Paper

Jianfeng Li, Dexiang Yang. Exploring the Motivations, Internal Causes, and Development Suggestions of China's "Double Reduction" Education Policy. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 25: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.062501.

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