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BLOG // RISHI VASHISTHA
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RTE 2.0: Act for Tomorrow
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In our previous blog,
Priyanka Anand Chadha talked about how the existing Right to Education
(RTE) Act significantly focuses on what goes into our education
system, and, disappointingly, ignores what it churns out. Abysmal
learning outcomes in students across grades, less than 2%
government-qualified teachers passing the TET, large-scale closure of
private schools – we have witnessed infinite cases where the right
to education only lived up to right to access to education, and
sometimes, not even that. Quality, equality, choice, accountability,
autonomy, freedom, outcomes – such things remain far from reality in
the current landscape.
With an objective of bringing in some of the above perspectives in
the education of tomorrow, some of India’s leading educationists met at
the UChicago Centre in Delhi on Monday. The four-hour roundtable
focused on specific amendments to the RTE Act, which would ensure
quality education for all in India. RTE 2.0: Building Consensus on
Amendments truly aimed at weeding out the pain areas in the existing
scheme of things, finding out what works and what doesn’t, and
introducing appropriate amendments to the actual text of the Act.
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FULL STORY >>
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VIDEO // THE RTE PLATFORM
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Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India
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Prof
Karthik Muralidharan from Department of Economics, University of
California - San Diego speaks in a lecture series at University of
Arkansas, Department of Education Reform. More at uaedreform.org.
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VIDEOS
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RESEARCH // GOVINDA AND BANDYOPADHYAY, CREATE, NUEPA, 2011
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Overcoming exclusion through quality schooling
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In
the era of globalisation, provision of quality education is
increasingly gaining importance across the world. Like elsewhere, it
has already been realised in India that equal attention is needed
simultaneously on access, equity and quality to achieve the goal of
universal elementary education. It has also been experienced that
although the majority of children in India today have access to school
education, all of them are not receiving quality education for various
reasons, leading to poor learning level, repetition and gradual
exclusion from school education. Large achievement gaps are found among
different groups of children attending schools located in different
regions and managed by government and private providers.
Using
the primary data collected from 88 schools of Madhya Pradesh and
Chhattisgarh, this paper attempts to critically examine the extent to
which the quality of school affects access and participation of
children particularly in rural areas. It also investigates problems of
inadequate infrastructure and academic facilities: how these are
affecting the quality of education; who are the children most affected
by poor quality schools and therefore facing problems of locational
disadvantage; and the influence of gender and social background of
children on their access to quality education.
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FULL STORY >>
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OPINION
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DID YOU KNOW?
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
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Should Section 28 of RTE Act, that prohibits teachers to engage in private tuition, be completely deleted?
Do you think private tuition / private teaching activity can be compared with government doctors running their own clinics?
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Many teachers find it impossible to manage classrooms in terms of learning environments because of the no-detention policy!
Section
16 provides that no child admitted in a school shall be held back
in any class or expelled from school till the completion of elementary
education.
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School Management Committees: Insights, Challenges and Way-forward
Central Square Foundation November 2013
An Overview of Seminar Sessions and Discussions
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POLLS AND DISCUSSIONS
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DYKs
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PUBLICATIONS
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THE RTE NEWSREEL
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Bihar // IBN Live // 15 July 2014
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SSA envisaged to achieve universal elementary education programme is lagging in Bihar: CAG
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The
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) envisaged to achieve universal elementary
education programme is lagging in Bihar with 1,896 eligible habitations
yet to see schools, a latest Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)
report said. It also said Bihar could not avail the benefit of Central
assistance and state share to the tune of Rs 19,279 crore for
implementing the SSA.
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Global // International Business Times // 14 July 2014
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World Malala Day: United Nations Observes the Day to Spread Awareness on Girls' Right to Education
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World Malala Day was announced by the United Nations to raise awareness on the right to education, especially of girls. Malala
Yousafzai, born in July 1997 in Swat, Pakistan, is a courageous and
vocal advocate of universal education and girls' rights. But her brave
activities did not go down well with the Taliban extremists.
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All-India // Business Standard // 14 July 2014
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Implementation of Right To Education not tardy: Govt to RS
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The
Right To Education (RTE), initiated during the UPA regime, today got a
thumbs-up from the NDA government which said its implementation had not
been tardy as 19.88 crore children have been enrolled at the elementary
level. "No, the progress under RTE Act 2009 indicates that 19.88 crore
children have been enrolled in elementary school, with a gross
enrolment ratio of 96.5 per cent as per district information system for
education 2013-14," HRD Minister Smriti Irani said in Rajya Sabha today.
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Tamil Nadu // The Hindu // 12 July 2014
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‘More money should translate to better outcomes’
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Activists
and education experts welcomed the increased allocation for two
flagship programmes, and new schemes announced for school education in
the Union Budget on Thursday. However, they observed that it must
correspondingly translate into better learning outcomes.
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All-India // DNA // 12 July 2014
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#dnaEdit: Primary education concerns
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The
UNESCO report on the out-of-school children in India should serve as a
wake-up call for the country, which harps on reaping demographic
dividends. UNESCO’s Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report
punctures India’s tall claim of making giant progress in providing
elementary education through the Sarva Shiksha Aviyan (SSA). If
anything the previous UPA government’s flagship programme has
floundered, making a mockery of the Right to Education.
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