Hubei Daily reporter Wang Lei Correspondent Zhang Lilei Liu Zengshuang
From 46 public kindergartens to 182 public kindergartens, from the comprehensive popularization of compulsory education to high-quality balance between urban and rural areas, from "no one can be left behind" to "a good school near the doorstep of the people", from urban and rural areas to bid farewell to the "small dining table" outside the school, and back to the "campus nutritious meal"... Through the tunnel of time and space, looking back at the past ten years of Yichang education, it is a decade of "breaking the ice" step by step and constantly taking new steps in educational equity and quality; it is a decade of doing one thing that can be seen and touched, so that parents can share the dividends brought by educational development. As the first starting point of social equity, education has returned strongly in Yichang .
This fall semester, the 26th branch of the Yiling District Preschool Education Group of Yichang City, Lanxigu Branch, opened.
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The public kindergarten at the door of your house is really fragrant
Education is fair. For young "second child mother" Gong Yun, there are more and more public kindergartens at the door of your house! In the 10 years from the eldest to the second child, whether in kindergarten or elementary school, Gong Yun’s deepest feeling is, “Mothers have more and more choices!”
Gong Yun is a "second-child mother" born in the 1990s who lives in Development Avenue. In 2014, her son was born and she loved to add a "popular gold" two years later. She felt very satisfied with both her son and daughter. But in 2017, when her son was preparing to go to kindergarten, she suddenly realized that public kindergartens had a good reputation, but none of them were close to her home, and there was only one private kindergarten in the community. After repeated choices, she and her husband signed up for her son to a public kindergarten 20 minutes away from home. The couple is a dual-employee, responsible for sending children in the morning and kindergartens early in the afternoon. The heavy responsibility of picking up children can only fall on the elderly, and a "pocket marathon" is available every day.
What she could not have imagined was that when her daughter entered the kindergarten three years later, the comparison appeared. Public kindergartens near her home opened one after another, and they were all the most "heart-willed" kindergartens for parents - the branch of the Yiling District Direct Institutional Kindergarten. They have good hardware and strong faculty. The most important thing is that my daughter only walks to kindergarten every day, and the elderly, who are getting worse and worse, have also become much more relaxed.
On October 10, when the reporter interviewed Gong Yun, she praised the public kindergarten at her doorstep. The environment is beautiful and the faculty is good. The child care and living expenses are less than 3,000 yuan per semester. Moreover, the teachers are all graduated from college and can teach and have fun. The children are very happy in kindergarten.
In this fall semester, Yiling District has opened four new public kindergartens in the community, including the Shanhai Daguan Branch of the Yiling District directly affiliated government kindergartens, Meiziya Branch of the Lanxigu Branch, and Yuefu Branch of the Yuefu Branch. Three of them are on the Development Avenue. Gong Yun now advises her best friend to have a second child, "not only will there be subsidies for going to kindergarten, but the environment is getting better and better."
"Ten years ago, Yiling District had only the only public kindergarten in the district's directly affiliated government kindergarten. After the establishment of the Yiling District Preschool Education Group, there are now 26 sub-school education, plus 4 collective kindergartens. Now more than 7,000 children are in the same 'big family'." On October 10, Tian Min, the director of the Yiling District Preschool Education Development Center and Yiling District's directly affiliated government kindergarten, told reporters that she has been engaged in preschool education for nearly 30 years. The past 10 years have been the 10 years when she felt that the government had never paid attention to and developed the fastest.
Tian Min said that after the establishment of the group, the children who benefited the most were the children. Whether they were children living in the remote mountainous areas of Zhangcunping and Xiabaoping, or children living in the urban area of Xiaoxita , eating, learning, living and using are the same standards, and they all enjoy the same high-quality educational resources.
reporter learned from the Yichang Municipal Education Bureau on the 10th that this set of data was: During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the city's fiscal preschool education investment increased from 32 million yuan to 480 million yuan, 192 new kindergartens were built, renovated and expanded, 41,500 new degrees were added, the gross enrollment rate in the three years of preschool education increased from 61% to 95%, and the city's public kindergartens increased from 46 to 182, an increase of 295.7%, and the coverage rate of universal kindergartens reached 85%... Yichang's practice to solve the problem of "difficulty in entering kindergartens and expensive admission" has attracted "brothers in cities and prefectures" in the province to learn from the teachings.
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Educational Fairness. For Zhao Xiaojing, a "middle-aged old mother" who has two students at home, it means that "the cost of education has been reduced, and there is no need to get off work early to pick up the children!"
As the first batch of only children born in 1980, in order to give the children a companion, Zhao Xiaojing gave her a younger sister to her 5-year-old daughter as soon as the policy of " single-child " was implemented in Yichang. In 2016, when her eldest daughter was in elementary school, Zhao Xiaojing felt that the corresponding elementary school at home was not very good, so she forced someone to find a relationship and entered a high-quality public school in the urban area, , but it took a 15-minute walk. Letting the child eat a "small dinner table" outside the school at noon, but picking up the child after school in the afternoon became Zhao Xiaojing's biggest headache. "The child got off at 5:30, and I got off work at 5:30. Every time I either asked for leave from the leader or sneaked away in advance." This "difficult" problem was finally solved last year.
In the fall semester of 2021, the campus nutritional meals of public schools in Yichang urban area were "full coverage". Yichang City, where the two sisters were studying, also moved out a small canteen, adopting the " central kitchen + micro kitchen" model, allowing students who are inconvenient to go home at noon to eat in the school canteen. At the same time, "after-school care service" also entered every public primary school in the urban area. Zhao Xiaojing's two daughters participated in the custody of art, sports, homework tutoring and other content at school. School was finished at 5:30, and she finally no longer had to "leave off early"! During the interview with
, Zhao Xiaojing happily told reporters that last year, the two sisters could only sleep on their tummy sleep in the classroom after lunch; this year, the school also made room for a small bed so that the students could finally "lie down" to sleep. She now goes to work wholeheartedly during the day and stays with her children at night.
Zhao Xiaojing's best friend Ms. Tian has not been busy with her children's schooling this year, because the former Xiling District Academy Street Primary School was merged into Yichang Experimental Primary School and became the "college campus" for students in grades 1-3, and shared high-quality public education resources. "The smart admissions platform allows us to apply for a degree for our children without leaving home." Ms. Tian said that she used to want to "choose a school", but now she just wants to "enter the school nearby".
2020, Yichang New students enrolled in compulsory education schools, "segment enrollment, no examinations are available nearby, and citizens are enrolled simultaneously", solving problems such as illegal examination enrollment and "picking the best" enrollment in advance, ensuring that school enrollment does not pick the source of students, ensuring that every child has equal opportunities for high-quality education, and at the same time implementing "group-based school management". The establishment of Yichang Wujiagang District Experimental Primary School Education Group, Yichang No. 25 Middle School Group, and Yichang Experimental Primary School Education Group have successively established, and strong schools have driven weak schools. Tian Junsheng, director of the Xiling District Education Bureau, felt this the most deeply. Big data shows that group-based school management and teacher exchanges not only attracted the "return" of students in the films of the past weak schools, but also greatly suppressed the continuous heating of school selection.
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The gap in urban and rural education levels continues to narrow
After the National Day holiday, the educational couple Xu Jing and Wang Lingdong from Wujiagang District, Yichang City, took their 6-year-old eldest daughter to work at Aerospace Hope Primary School in Guizhou Town, Zigui County. Educational fairness, for couples, means teaching their knowledge to more mountain students.
In March this year, the Yichang Municipal Education Bureau issued a work initiative for rural education revitalization (pair and co-construction) to the whole city. The couple submitted their application without hesitation. With the determination of "bringing their families and moving back to the state", they handed over their one-year-old son to the care of their grandmother, and only took their 6-year-old daughter to teach at Aerospace Hope Primary School in Zigui Town, Zigui County. Previously, Xu Jing was an elementary school art teacher, and her lover Wang Lingdong was a physical education teacher at Lijiahu Primary School.
came to the new school. The couple integrated sports and art interdisciplinary integration, and organized a series of "Football Carnival" activities centered on the school football league and all-member football games, radiating reading, writing, artistic creation, and comprehensive practice. They took students to participate in county-wide football competitions, held football theme painting exhibitions, mascot designs, and clearance game venue layouts, making rural teenagers more and more confident in these activities.At this year's Wujiagang District Teachers' Day celebration, their stories made people cry.
The teachers in the city go to the countryside, and rural teachers also go to the city. Up to now, nearly 50 teachers in Yichang have participated in exchange and learning.
Before the National Day, the curriculum office of Yichang No. 16 Middle School had just ended a unique teaching and research activity. Yang Siwei, an exchange teacher from Langping Town Central Primary School in Changyang County, remembers it closely in his notebook as before. Yang Siwei laughed and said that No. 16 Middle School is a "knowledge-rich mine". Here he not only absorbs new educational concepts and teaching methods, but also "unlocks" various new skills such as quickly drawing maps of China, fitness, and playing basketball. After returning to , Changyang , he must pass on all these new skills to students.
In order to promote the balanced development of urban and rural education in Yichang, Yichang's high school camp also formed a district-based alliance five years ago to break the education bottleneck.
In December 2017, Yichang City launched the reform of district-based school management in general high schools and established two district-based alliances for general high schools in Jiangnan and Jiangbei. Today, the urban areas and 9 high schools in five counties involved in the two major district alliances have benefited from this reform and achieved remarkable results. The Jiangnan area has implemented the aspects of teacher exchange, student exchange, cadre exchange, teaching and research, scientific research, resource sharing, etc., and has launched a series of cooperation forms such as the list of cooperation, famous teacher studios, and Qinglan Project . The Jiangbei area has held various forms of seminars and seminars; led teachers to Shanghai, Suzhou "Three New" training, class teacher professional ability competition and other activities. The teachers said that the growth and gains in recent years are many times that of the past, and everyone is "busy and happy".
Reporter's Notes:
Everyone must protect educational equity
As a journalist on the education front, I have worked for more than ten years and have come into contact with the most people, the teachers, the place I go to the most is the school, and the deepest experience of "educational equity".
Every township has a public kindergarten. Disabled children can study in ordinary primary schools in class. There are more children of migrant workers in the city who flow into the ground. The school’s after-school services have basically achieved full coverage. The “ intra-volume ” among parents has finally “cooled”. Secondary vocational students can also take the “skill college entrance examination” to realize their college dreams... No matter where they study, no matter what stage they learn, every student’s dream is illuminated; no matter what your identity is, the hopes of every family are supported.
We must actively embrace every new education policy , choose a school for children without any trouble, do not participate in illegal off-campus training, give children a rational positioning, and choose general high school or secondary vocational school... Children are the hope of every family. Educational fairness can give every child the opportunity to shine in life, but the educational fairness we strive to pursue also needs to be protected by each of us.
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