Rural poor students in China face many obstacles. The ultimate goal of REAP is to help students from poor rural households in China overcome these obstacles and harvest their educational dreams.

To accomplish this goal the Rural Education Action Project (REAP) is conducting real world, experiment-based research in order to provide  policy makers with clear scientific results that can help shape  successful policies to improve the effectiveness of K-12+ rural  education programs and improve the educational experience of young  Chinese rural students.

Thus, REAP is about more than research! We will award scholarships, grant loans, provide information and aid in the design of evaluation efforts of new K-12 initiatives – dorm management programs; early childhood education; school-based nutrition programs; and more.