当前,我国农业和农村经济正处在关键的发展阶段,迫切需要全面提高农村劳动力素质。然而近几年来,农村教育没有受到应有的重视,似乎农村义务教育问题已经基本解决,没有必要再给予特别的关注和强调。一些农村地区的教育都出现不同程度的滑坡现象,即便在一些已经实现“普九”目标的中东部地区,也仍然存在水平低、基础弱、不稳固的现象,其最主要、最直接的标志就是普及程度的降低,其中初中生辍学问题尤为突出。本文通过深入调查,分析现今农村中学生辍学率上升的原因,并对新时期农村地区的防辍保学提出一些建议。 At present, our country’s agriculture and rural economy are at a crucial stage of development, and there is an urgent need to improve the overall quality of rural labor force. However, in recent years, rural education has not received due attention. It seems that the issue of compulsory education in rural areas has been basically solved and there is no need to give special attention and emphasis. In some rural areas, education has experienced various degrees of decline. Even in some areas in the central and eastern part of the country where the goal of “universal suffrage” has been achieved, there are still some low-level and weak foundations and unstable phenomena. The major and most direct The sign is to reduce the degree of popularity, including junior high school dropout problem is particularly prominent. Through in-depth investigation, this paper analyzes the reasons for the dropout rate of rural middle school students in today’s rural areas and puts forward some suggestions on preventing dropouts in rural areas in the new era.