The rural small scale schools in China take on the responsibility of providing education for the 20% disadvantaged children in rural areas.However,the problem of insufficient resources restricts their development.Combining the theory of resource dependence with the experience of some rural small scale schools,we raise independent development strategies for rural small scale schools,which take expanding resources as the core:Strategy I,to re-examine the external environment of organizations and to seek the support from social resources;Strategy II,to enhance endogenous development in order to i...