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School Choice National Conference: Freedom in Education
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19 DECEMBER 2014 AT THE THEATRE, INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI
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School
Choice National Conference (SCNC) is an annual event that provides a
much needed platform to identify critical issues in the education
sector, review existing programs, explore strategies to face the
challenges ahead and ideate on ingenious solutions to provide quality
education to all children in India.
For more information, contact Rohan Joshi; M: +91-96501 27755; E: [email protected]
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CLICK HERE TO REGISTER >>
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11th Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival
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Calling for entries on livelihood issues in Education!
Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival is a unique platform that
highlights livelihood challenges and regulatory barriers faced by the
rural and urban entrepreneurs in Asia. For the Education World-Jeevika Freedom Award, in partnership with Education
World Magazine, we invite applications for outstanding documentaries by
professionals and students that highlight livelihood challenges or
successes of people working in the education sector.
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CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT >>
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RESEARCH, REPORTS AND PAPERS
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| In India, Revealing the Children Left Behind |
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TINA ROSENBERG |
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now, all over rural India, this is happening: Two local volunteers with
a few days’ training come into the village. They knock on randomly
selected doors, asking to see all children ages 6 to 16 who live there.
In the front yard of the house, they test the children one by one in
reading and math. A crowd gathers: parents, neighbors, sometimes the
whole village. Children jump up and down, shouting, “Test me! Test me!"
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FULL PAPER >>
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Teachers Hold the Key to Student Learning: Pakistan Education Sector Review
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| THE WORLD BANK |
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Teachers
are considered the main input within schools for helping students
learn. The positive impact of a high-performing teacher is not limited
just to test scores. A student’s exposure to a high-performing
teacher for as short as one school year can be enough for long-lasting,
positive effects on future education, employment, and earnings
outcomes. New research shows that individual teachers impact child
learning differently. This was discussed in recently held Pakistan
Education Sector Review workshops organized by the World Bank in Lahore
and Islamabad. |
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FULL PAPER >>
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Are
we asking the right questions? Moving beyond the state vs non-state
providers debate: Reflections and a Case Study from India |
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COLIN BANGAY AND MICHAEL LATHAM
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This
paper provides an overview of recent trends in basic education
provision in India: charting an impressive expansion of enrolment in
public schools but a growing concern with the quality of learning.
Concerns around quality are seen as a driving factor in the migration
of students from the public sector to low fee private schools. While
there is evidence of improved learning amongst some low fee private
schools there are also significant concerns around equity. The paper
proposes that for the sake of future generations it is necessary to
move beyond a polemical focus on state or non-state provision but
rather to focus on six core questions about education provision: Is it
sound pedagogically? Does it deliver meaningful learning? Is it
equitable? Is it scalable? Is it financially viable and Is it
sustainable? These questions are explored through a review of ‘Gyan
Shala’, an innovative low cost education programme operating in the
slums of Gujarat and Bihar. The paper concludes that a better
understanding of the dynamic between the sectors is needed to ensure
effective education planning which will deliver meaningful learning to
all.
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FULL PAPER >>
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Education in India - An Audio Podcast with Parth Shah
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K. SATYANARAYAN
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Satya: What do you think are the main problems in school education in India today?
Parth: That's
a very big question. I think in education there are three key issues in
any country. One is access, the second is quality and the third is
equity. I think all three in a sense have been the challenges for us
too in India. In terms of access, there is pretty good consesus now
that we have been able to provide access to most children in India
through SSA and many other reforms that the government has brought in.
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FULL PAPER >>
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CCS RESEARCH
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Closure of NGO-run schools in Delhi under RTE
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JAYANTI SINGH
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This
paper studies the impact of the closure of NGO run schools under the
Right to Education Act (RTE), 2009 on parents and children. The Right
of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 sets certain
norms and standards that schools have to comply with within three year.
The deadline was March 31 2013. Having missed the deadline, numerous
unrecognised schools closed down. To highlight the impact of closures,
a case study was carried out with Deepalaya schools. Field visits were
conducted to find out where the children of these NGO schools are now.
Are the children getting education? Where? What has been the impact on
parents? How have they coped with the closure? It was found that a
large number of the children were still enrolled in theseschools which are currently functioning as tuition centres, post closure.
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FULL PAPER >>
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Reaching out to the fringe: PAHAL as a template for voucher program ineducation of marginalised children
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DHRITI BHATTACHARYYA
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Pahal,
which is one landmark public-private partnership initiative in the
field of education choice for urban deprived area in Uttarakhand,
provides monetary aid worth Rs. 3000/- per child to the privateschools
for providing free education to children of age 6-14 years from the
slums of Dehradun, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar. The program started
in 2007 and, since then, based on its initial success has been expanded
covering the need of more than thousand children. Being the first
government venture in implementing the education voucher scheme in
India, Pahal demands detail documentation of the project. The current
study, as one of the first attempts to record the status quo of Pahal
and its beneficiaries involving both schools and children, is focused
to document various stages of the implementation process and to
understand the socio-economic impact of the same. The present study is
concentrated to the schools under PAHAL in the city of Dehradun,
Uttarakhand.
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FULL PAPER >>
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