Practical Pathways for Coordinated Burden Reduction and Quality Improvement in Primary and Secondary Schools under the Double Reduction Policy
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Double Reduction, burden reduction, quality improvement, homework governance, after-school service, basic educationAbstract
Objective: To construct a practical pathway for the coordinated implementation of burden reduction and quality improvement in primary and secondary schools under China's Double Reduction policy. Methods: Based on policy analysis, school-based practice reflection, and the logic of instructional improvement, this paper develops an implementation framework covering homework governance, classroom transformation, after-school services, home-school collaboration, and evaluation reform. Results: The study identifies a five-dimensional pathway: clarifying school-level governance responsibilities, redesigning homework as diagnostic learning evidence, improving classroom efficiency through deep learning tasks, building differentiated after-school services, and replacing score-centered accountability with process-oriented quality monitoring. Conclusion: The key to Double Reduction is not a simple decrease in learning time, but a structural shift from external pressure to internal quality. Schools can achieve sustainable burden reduction only when curriculum, teaching, homework, services, and evaluation are redesigned as an integrated system.
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