Abstract: By comparing related articles in Education Research and Harvard Education Review of the past 17 years (1994—2010), the paper discusses the differences of educationequity focus between China and America. Statistics indicate that both of the two countries attach much importance to the issue of education equity, but, due to the gap in terms of development level and culture background, their research focuses differ significantly. While China emphasizes rural education and college entrance examination system, America sheds more light on racist, women's and special education. As to methodology, China tends to carry out policy review and macroexamination, but America always conducts policy investigation and microteaching research. Based on these findings, some implications and suggestions can be drawn from the present study to promote the development of education equity in China.

Key words: Education equity, research focus, Edication Research, Harvard Education Review, comparison between China and America