中科院农业政策研究中心农村教育行动计划项目组(REAP)在2009年和2010年期间,对西部贫困地区46所学校进行跟踪调查发现,初中阶段一届学生的辍学率高达25%以上。项目组成员、西北社会经济发展研究中心主任史耀疆表示,农村初中辍学情况在这两年来并未好转。按2009年农村初中学生2000万名、国家级贫困县 During 2009 and 2010, REAP conducted a survey of 46 schools in the impoverished western regions, and found that the drop-out rate for one junior high school student was over 25%. Shi Yaojiang, member of the project team and director of Northwest Social and Economic Development Research Center, said that the situation of dropping out of school in rural junior high schools has not improved in these two years. By 2009 20 million junior high school students in rural areas, state-level poverty-stricken counties