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Between Equity and Excellence:

Resource Allocation in Taiwan’s

Education

Tian-Ming Sheu
Professor, Department of Education, National Taiwan Normal University
Ya-Wen Shang

Ph. D. Student, Department of Education, National Taiwan Normal University
Kuan-Ming Chen
Assistant Research Fellow, National Academy for Educational Research

Abstract

With the fact that resources are always limited, policymakers need to
make the decision between equity and excellence: forgetting equity to get
excellence, or sacrificing excellence to pursue equity. However, the international

assessments have demonstrated that there is no any education systems could
maintain long-term excellence without fulfilling equity. In the light of this, the

education of the disadvantaged becomes the core of education policies all over
the world.
According to the results of international assessments, we have found
that students in Taiwan perform remarkable competence achievement, but