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Focusing on the case of mathematics, this paper reviews debates on China's new Basic Education Curriculum Reform program, including the status of knowledge within the reformed curriculum, the arrangement of the curriculum system, and the push toward real-life applicability and hands-on participation. It discusses the related challenges that teachers face in the implementation of the new curriculum reform. Lastly, this paper reviews how to promote the further development of this new reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2001, three high school graduates from Shandong province sued the Ministry of Education, claiming that the province-based quota system used in college admission in China violates the constitutional principle of equal protection. This paper traces the emergence, evolution, and termination of the lawsuit as well as its aftermath, giving particular attention to the role of the media in this social movement against regional discrimination. Through an integrated legal and media analysis, the paper suggests that the litigation dramatizes the social problem and helps to levy public support. Yet, the real battlefield for this social movement is indeed in public opinion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The National Medium- and Long-Term Educational Reform and Development Guideline (2010-20) (hereafter abbreviated as the Guideline), formulated by the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council, posits the basic completion of the modernization of China's education and other development targets by 2020. As measures to guarantee the fulfillment of education's development targets, the Guideline proposes to increase expenditure in education, improve education funding mechanisms, strengthen management of education funds, and improve the student financial assistance system and other financial policies for education. This paper explains the main content of the financial policies for education in the Guideline and the considerations taken into account when drafting these policies, predicts the results of these policies, and puts forward suggestions for reform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the implementation of the Plan of College Graduate Volunteer Service in Western China. The Western China Program, initiated through this policy, organizes college students to engage in full-time volunteer services. The said policy is first carried out and in accordance with the principles of open recruitment, voluntary application, organized selection and unified dispatch. In this paper, recruitment and pre-service training procedures, in-service procedures and post-service arrangements are provided. One of the procedures is that the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Ministry of Education should jointly establish a group for the Plan of College Graduate Volunteer Service.