Research on the Gap Between Urban and Rural Teacher Resources Based on Data and Case Analysis

Abstract

With the development of society, the trend of urbanization is becoming clearer and faster. Despite its advantages, this trend also brings education an unignorable problem: The diverse Urban-Rural Gaps of Teachers. For students from rural areas, the gap in teacher resources may cause them hard to get sufficient education and can’t accumulate enough knowledge to live a better life as a result. Although this is a significant problem, only a few papers offer this topic. So the author will introduce this topic and discuss the possible solutions to it by data analysis and successful cases reference. In conclusion, the Urban-rural gap in teachers’ number has been narrowed a lot in recent years but the teacher-student ratio still remains unreasonable. The teacher quality gap between urban and rural areas is being widened with the Informatization, especially in the academic qualifications, age structure and on-the-job training preference. To gradually narrow the gap, Japan's "Teacher Regular Flow System" and "Special Allowance System" can be referred to by China. Also, the government should increase the financial support for teaching in rural areas as well as encourage informatization in poor counties in order to strengthen the attractiveness of talent in rural areas.