ABSTRACT
With the coming of 90s of the 20th century, there is a sharp increase of the floating
population’s children, who have become a special part of the floating population. As a
result, the education of this kind of children is put forward as a serious issue that
becomes a new subject and attracts extensive social attention.
Previous researches into the children of the urban floating population mainly
focused on the educational situation of the schools for migrant laborers’ children. And
they often ignored the academic scores, which is the direct performance of the quality of
education. Therefore, to check out whether the children of floating population received
an education equally is as important as to care about whether the children are able to go
to school. This paper intends to make further research from this aspect to find out the
factors that affect the academic scores of the children of floating population under the
current educational situation.
The data of this paper come from questionnaires, interviews and documents. Based
on the statistic analysis of the result of the questionnaires and the summary of the record
of the interviews, and associated with the theory of sociology, economy, analogy and
demography, the educational situation of the children of the migrant laborer in Beijing
is analyzed from different point of views to be more comprehensive and more scientific.
The survey uses 500 sheets of questionnaires, covering Chao yang District(200), Feng
tai District(200) and Hai dian District(100). The original data is from the Public
Security Bureau of Beijing, the Bureau of Education of Beijing and some other relative
government organs to guarantee the scientific of this paper.
The factors that affect the educational situation and the analysis of the factors
consist the principal part of this paper. According to the survey, the competence of the
teacher, the facility and administration of the school, the family education and even the
children themselves all play important roles in the forming of the phenomenon. If
improvements could be achieved from the 4 aspects mentioned above, the all-round
development of the children’s ability and competence and the advancing of their
academic scores and the fairness of education could come true in the near future. At last,
this paper gives a summary of the whole analysis and suggests several available
advision.
The aim of this paper is to arouse people’s attention to the education of the