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The Analysis of Chinese Countryside Leftover Children’s Education Problems Written by: Wang Tao Supervised by: Gu Faliang English Department School of Foreign Studies Anhui Normal University March 2012  Acknowledgments I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis. A special acknowledgment should be shown to Professor Gu Faliang, from whose lectures I benefited greatly. I am particularly indebted to the headmaster, Qian Yelu, and the teachers in Xinhu Primary School, in the town of Guanqian, Chizhou, Anhui Province. Before I started my thesis, I taught in the primary school as a volunteer for three months. During that period, Mr. Qian and all the teachers gave me a great help to make an investigation about the situation and information of the leftover children in the school. With their help, I got lots of detailed data to prepare for the thesis. The Analysis of Chinese Countryside Leftover Children’s Education Problems Abstract This paper, by the way of on-the-spot investigation research, surveys the present education situation of a group of special countryside children called the Leftover Children whose parents are not at home. Based on the two aspects of society and family, an initial exploration and an analysis are done to find the influential elements of this problem. The education problem of these leftover children is a special reflection which happened in the process of the social transition in rural areas. The direct cause is that the rural labor works outside as migrant workers, which leads to the lack of family education. However, the root of these problems is that China’s long-standing policies of the urban and rural economic development are uneven, and there exists the extreme imbalance of the development between urban and rural areas. It also leads to the overall quality of the basic education in countryside falling quite behind. These children’s education problems are just a part of the specific perf