TY - JOUR AU - Wang, Samuel C. PY - 1999/09/07 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Project Hope and the Hope School System in China JF - Education Policy Analysis Archives JA - EPAA VL - 7 IS - 0 SE - DO - 10.14507/epaa.v7n28.1999 UR - https://epaa.asu.edu/index.php/epaa/article/view/563 SP - 28 AB - I investigate the creation, development, contributions and limits of Project Hope, a huge government-endorsed education project seeking non-governmental contributions to overcome educational inadequacy in poverty-stricken rural communities in transitional China. By reexamining the composition of sponsored students, the locations of Hope Primary Schools and non-educational orientations for building and expanding schools, I argue that Project Hope and its Hope School system have not contributed to educational access, equality, equity, efficiency and quality as it should have. Poverty-reduction-oriented curriculum requirements in Hope Primary Schools are theoretically misleading and realistically problematic. ER -