The Role of County Governments in Promoting Rural Education Revitaliza-tion:Why and How They Can Take on the Role Effectively
Revitalizing rural education is a realistic choice to support rural revitalization and ensure balanced and high-quality development of compulsory education in county areas.County governments play a crucial role in promoting rural education revitalization,not only as part of their responsibilities but also as a necessary need to leverage their strengths for leading reforms and development in rural education.However,county-led revitalization initiatives often face such issues as the tendency to"em-phasize select examples over widespread adoption",misalignment with local conditions,and homogeneous planning.In order to mitigate the unintended consequences brought by the county government's promotion of rural education revitalization,it is neces-sary to strengthen educational supervision to prevent using"select examples"to promote education revitalization from using only these examples to replace widespread implementation of the policy,to foster a county-level governance structure to invigorate ru-ral education,and to emphasize both stability and innovation to capitalize on the strengths of rural education,and promote prac-tices of rural education revitalization that are innovative,flexible,and inclusive.