Inspiration Of American Compensatory Education Programs To Priority To The Development Of Minority Education In China

For a long time, the economic development and cultural difference between ethnic minorities and Ha nationality has made ethnic minority education on a disadvantaged situation. This disadvantage mainly manifested as ethnic minority students are more prone to get a low grad, high rate dropping out and low employment rate etc. And this disadvantage has seriously affected equality in education in China. To eliminate this disadvantage, sates should adopt a positive way of differential treatment; give them a certain degree of priority policy and preferential policies, for example, to help the development of minority education. This treatment coincided with American Compensatory Education Programs to some extent. American Compensatory Plan is an important measure for U.S. government to pursuit educational equality. It originated in Johnson administration's "war to poverty."Since the start of implementation so far, their quest for equality has long been from a simple financial compensation to the in-depth compensate for the quality of education, which is an example for our country's education priority policy that is still taking financial compensation as the main current in minority regions.This study divided into four parts:In the first part, briefly analyzes the content of national education priority. through the understanding of he relationship between Rawls justice and priorities t, as well as the analysis o f impact on minority education that caused by economic and cultural differences between ethnic.the author pointed out that educational development of compensation is one of the meaning of national education priority.The second part reviews the social background of the United States compensatory education and theoretical background. Through background analyzing, informed the United States of poverty and ethnic equality in education is an important impeding factors.The third part analyzes the development and implementation of U.S. policy of compensatory education program.Mainly on the 1965 "Elementary and Secondary Education Act," a series of bills relating to compensatory education policy analysis, and on this basis, the implementation of the compensation items. Finally took the more successful policy—"Head Start "as a case study.The fourth part, on the basis of the review the inadequate of priority to the development of national education policy, the author drawn on the positive part of the policy of priority and then put forward four proposals for the development of national education policy.