Can After-School Services Safeguard Educational Access for Disadvantaged Students?——Debate from the Perspective of Educational Micro-Equity
Since the implementation of the double reduction policy,the after-school service of primary and secondary schools,as a new fulcrum to promote educational equity,should not on-ly pay attention to its implementation at the macro system level,but also examine its promotion at the micro level.Based on the perspective of educational micro-equity,questionnaire and inter-view survey methods are used to carry out empirical research in four provinces in central,west-ern,southern and northern China.With schools as the implementation basis,families as the vari-able unit,and students as the final subject,this study intends to investigate the status quo of dif-ferent types of disadvantaged students'educational attainment in after-school services.This paper probes into whether the current after-school service can guarantee the disadvantaged students'access to education,and examines its role in promoting the micro-equity of education.This will help to shift the perspective of research on disadvantaged students from loss compensa-tion to advantaged development,explore school-level protective factors,provide scientific basis for explaining the mechanism of family environment on educational access,and provide scientific advice on how to further promote the development of after-school services.