随着中国城市经济的发展,一亿外来民工涌入各大城市。在旧有的体制框架中,外来民工子女的义务教育正在遭遇一定的困境。经典的“木桶理论”认为,一个木桶能盛多少水,不是取决于木桶上最长的那块木板,而是取决于最短的那块。一个城市机体的健康指数正是取决于民工及其子女这样的边缘群体的受关怀程度。 With the development of China’s urban economy, one hundred million migrant workers have poured into major cities. In the old institutional framework, the compulsory education of migrant children is experiencing some difficulties. The classic Barrel Theory holds that the amount of water a barrel can hold depends not on the longest piece of wood on the barrels but on the shortest piece. The health index of an urban body depends precisely on the level of care of marginalized groups such as migrant workers and their children.