在中国农村，诸多阻碍正困扰着贫困学生的求学梦。而农村教育行动项目（REAP）的最终目标就是要帮助中国农村贫困家庭的的学生克服重重障碍，收获他们求学的梦想。

为了实现这一目标，“农村教育行动项目（Rural Education Action Project） ——REAP正在以现实的实验研究为基础，为政策制定者提供科学的实证依据，为相关部门制定出有利于提高中国农村地区教育（学前教育到高中教育直至高等教育）的有效性，改善农村学子的受教育状况提供清晰、合理、科学的政策建议。

可见，REAP不仅仅是一项科学研究！我们还将开展颁发奖学金、助学贷款、提供信息和帮助设计并评估学前教育到高中... (more)

在中国农村，诸多阻碍正困扰着贫困学生的求学梦。而农村教育行动项目（REAP）的最终目标就是要帮助中国农村贫困家庭的的学生克服重重障碍，收获他们求学的梦想。

为了实现这一目标，“农村教育行动项目（Rural Education Action Project） ——REAP正在以现实的实验研究为基础，为政策制定者提供科学的实证依据，为相关部门制定出有利于提高中国农村地区教育（学前教育到高中教育直至高等教育）的有效性，改善农村学子的受教育状况提供清晰、合理、科学的政策建议。

可见，REAP不仅仅是一项科学研究！我们还将开展颁发奖学金、助学贷款、提供信息和帮助设计并评估学前教育到高中教育阶段的一些新的政策措施等活动。比如说我们的宿舍管理项目、早期幼儿教育、校园营养计划等等。

The overall goal of this proposed project (to be implemented by REAP—Stanford, REAP-China; Chao Foundation and our partners in Gansu’s health, nutrition and education communities) is to design a program—packaged together as a Best Buy Health and Nutrition Tool Kit for Improving Education—to meet these two challenges. In particular, we want to find affordable and sustainable solutions for improving student education through better health and nutrition, by conducting a large-scale, real-world, experiment-based project. The experiment-based part of the project will allow us to evaluate if the Best Buy Tool Kit works or not (as well as to identify which tools work the best). Since the Took Kit contains proven and inexpensive health and nutrition interventions that have been shown in other settings to increase educational performance when provided as individual treatments, we want to discover if they work together as a package to have even greater effects (or if there is some reason that they do not work in this more comprehensive, intervention setting).

To meet our overall goal, we will pursue three specific objectives:

Rigorously measure the initial health and nutrition levels of students in our treatment schools (and control schools) as well as the starting levels of educational performance;
Use the tools in our Best Buy Tool Kit—multivitamins; eyeglasses; deworming medications; nutrition training for parents; boarding school management training for educators—to treat the health and nutrition problems in the treatment schools.

Assess what works well and what does not in creating a policy-relevant health and nutrition program by measuring final levels of health, nutrition and education and comparing improvements in treatment schools and control schools. (less)