Recently, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education issued the Opinions of the Provincial Department of Education on Further Standardizing School Management and Effectively Reducing the Schoolwork Burden of Primary and Secondary School Students (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions), which standardized management from homework, exams, courses and other aspects. The opinion puts forward that homework should not be turned into homework for parents, the number and content of exams should be strictly controlled, and teaching should be organized in strict accordance with the curriculum arrangement.

The opinion requires that in terms of homework setting, the total amount and time of daily homework should be strictly controlled, the actual effect of homework should be enhanced, homework should be arranged according to students' academic foundation, homework beyond curriculum standards and students' academic ability requirements should not be arranged, and homework should not be turned into parent homework. Teachers should take students' homework seriously, and ensure that any homework must be corrected and any correction must be evaluated. Parents are not allowed to approve homework on their behalf.

In terms of examination management, the number and content of examinations are strictly controlled. Primary schools organize a unified examination 1 time every semester, with no more than 3 subjects and no more than 2 times per semester in junior high schools; It is strictly forbidden to have Olympic Games questions in the test paper or to use Olympic Games questions as additional questions; Cancel the unified examination, joint examination or monthly examination of compulsory education schools and senior one, as well as various forms of disguised examinations; Schools are not allowed to publish candidates' scores, rankings and online rates of individual or collective senior high school entrance examinations, inform parents of students' scores, and rank students' test scores in each class.