The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council recently issued the “Opinions on Further Reducing the Burden of Students’ Homework and Off-campus Training in Compulsory Education.” Why promote “double reduction”? How can we truly achieve “double reduction”? The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education gave an authoritative response.
Too much burden on primary and middle school students is one of the most prominent problems in compulsory education
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education stated that in recent years, in accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, various localities have carried out in-depth “double reduction” work and achieved positive results. However, one of the most prominent problems of compulsory education is that the burden of primary and secondary school students is too heavy, and the short-sighted and utilitarian problems have not been fundamentally solved. On the one hand, students’ homework burden is still heavy and homework management is not perfect; on the other hand, off-campus training is still overheated, and the problem of advanced and over-standard training has not been fundamentally solved. Some off-campus training programs charge high fees, and excessive capital influx poses greater risks. Training institutions have “difficult to refund fees”, “rolling money and running away” and other violations of laws and regulations have occurred from time to time. These problems have caused excessive burdens on students’ homework and off-campus training, and parents’ financial and energy burdens. They have seriously offset the achievements of educational reform and development, and the society has responded strongly.
According to reports, in response to the above problems, the “double reduction” work will be promoted in accordance with the ideas of source governance, systematic governance, comprehensive governance, and governance according to law. Give full play to the main position of the school, insist on teaching, and focus on improving the quality of teaching, homework management and after-school service, so that students can learn better and return to campus, “eat well” and “eat well” on campus, and reduce participation in off-campus training need. At the same time, it has made arrangements for strengthening after-school services, reducing test pressure, improving quality evaluation, and creating a good ecology, and systematically promoted the “double reduction” work throughout the chain.
Reduce the burden of students’ heavy homework and improve the school’s after-school service level
At present, some schools have problems such as excessive amount of homework, low quality, and alienated functions, which can not achieve the effect of reviewing the past and learning the new, but also occupying students’ normal exercise, rest, and entertainment time.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education stated that one of the “double reduction” tasks is to reduce the unreasonable workload of students. The opinions put forward clear requirements such as improving the homework management mechanism, clarifying the total amount of homework, improving the quality of homework design, and strengthening the guidance of homework completion, which are aimed at effectively reducing the burden of students’ overweight homework.
The opinions also put forward clear requirements for strengthening after-school services, ensuring service time, improving service quality, and expanding service channels. According to the person in charge of the Ministry of Education, for a long time, compulsory education schools, especially elementary schools, are dismissed at “3:30”, which has caused the problem of parents having difficulty picking up their children before the end of get off work hours, and some have sent their children to training institutions outside the school. It has increased the burden of excessive off-campus, resulting in “burden reduction within the school and increased burden outside the school”, which has become a hot issue of widespread concern in the society. The school’s after-school services can effectively solve the problems of parents’ difficulty in picking up and drop off and children’s nowhere to go; it can make full use of the after-school time, provide a variety of services, provide students with learning and development space; also help to better meet Individualized development needs of students promote the comprehensive and healthy growth of students.
Fully regulate off-campus training behavior
In recent years, the Ministry of Education and related departments have carried out special management of off-campus training institutions and achieved initial results, but there are still some problems that have not been fundamentally resolved. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education said that according to statistics, the current number of out-of-school training institutions for primary and middle school students in the country is very large, which is basically the same as the number of schools. It is mixed with good and bad. If it is allowed to develop, it will form another education outside the national education system. system. Due to the low cost of violations, unlicensed and unlicensed institutions continue to be banned repeatedly, false propaganda, over-standards, arbitrary fees, and links to primary and secondary school enrollment and other violations still exist, and incidents such as institutional closures occur from time to time. In addition, in recent years, a large amount of capital has poured into the training industry, the “burning money” war has been launched, advertisements have been overwhelming, and the whole society has been “bombed and bombarded.” The normal ecology of education.
According to reports, in response to these outstanding issues, the opinions have clarified five measures. One is to adhere to strict examination and approval agencies, the other is to strictly prohibit capital operation, the third is to establish a training content filing and supervision system, and the fourth is to strictly control the opening hours of discipline training institutions. , Fifth, subject-related fees are included in the government guide price. In response to new situations and new problems in the management of off-campus training institutions, the state will further improve relevant laws, regulations and systems.
Improve the quality of school education and ensure that students learn well in school
To reduce the excessive extracurricular burden of primary and secondary school students, it is necessary not only to strictly manage off-campus training institutions, but also to improve the quality of school education, so that students can learn well in school, alleviate social anxiety, and reduce the urge of parents to send their children to participate in off-school training.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education pointed out that the promotion of balanced development and narrowing the differences between urban and rural areas, and between schools in the same area, have played a vital role in reducing the academic burden. It is necessary to actively carry out the high-quality and balanced creation of compulsory education, promote the growth of new high-quality schools, actively promote group-based school running, school district governance, and the construction of urban and rural school communities, and expand high-quality educational resources. At the same time, we must strengthen and optimize free online learning services, provide high-quality thematic educational resources and learning resources covering all grades and subjects, and expand the utilization and coverage of high-quality educational resources. In order to demand efficiency from the “45 minutes” in the classroom, the education department should guide schools to improve teaching management procedures, optimize teaching methods, strengthen teaching management, and improve students’ learning efficiency in school. Schools should fully open the nationally prescribed courses, actively promote the connection of young and elementary science, and strictly follow the curriculum standards for zero-start teaching, so as to teach everything that should be taught.
In response to the current compulsory education stage examination quality is not high, the tendency to “only score” and other undesirable phenomena, as well as teachers’ paid supplementary lessons outside the school, the opinions also put forward targeted measures. According to reports, the Ministry of Education is developing relevant documents for examination management and making further arrangements for this.Return to Sohu to see more
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