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Child welfare not an issue
for 80 percent candidates:
NGO
www.samaylive.com, 13 May
2009
A survey conducted by child rights
organisation Bachpan Bachao Andolan Wednesday said around 80
percent candidates contesting elections this Lok Sabha polls
do not have child welfare or Right to Education on their
priority list. Bachpan Bachao Andolan carried out the survey
after scanning the campaign speeches of 476 candidates. More [+] |
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Mizoram govt. sets up
education reforms
commission
www.freshnews.in May 19,
2009
Mizoram government on Thursday constituted an
eleven-member Education Reforms Commission headed by former
Director of NCERT Prof A K Sharma to recommend improvement of
quality of education in the state. The Commission would
examine the current status of pre-primary to higher education
level and recommend improvement of quality of education and
competitiveness. More [+] |
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To tune into needs of
special children, teachers enroll for three-month
course
Express News Service, May 18,
2009
As many as 40 teachers are undergoing
training at the Government Institute for Mentally Retarded
Children. The reason: developing teaching skills needed to
cater to the requirements of children with special needs.
These teachers, primarily from government schools, are
enrolled in a three-month foundation course. Recognised by the
Rehabilitation Council of India, the main objective of the
course is to educate teachers on the various aspects of
disability. More [+] |
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No playgrounds in most
primary schools
The Times of India, 19
May 2009
Over 60% of primary schools in Goa do not
have playgrounds. Not only is this finding by the New
Delhi-based National University of Educational ....The NUEPA
nation-wide survey in 2006-07 found that only 31.26% of the
1,004 government, aided and private primary schools in rural
Goa had playgrounds. Urban Goa fared a tad better with 39.55%
primary schools having playgrounds. Unfortunately, both
figures were sharply below the national average of 51% in
rural areas and 63% in urban settings. More [+] |
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Children of Shepherds have
a special school in Jharkhand
ANI Mon,
18 May 2009
A man in Jharkhand's Dumka district is
running a small school for the children of shepherd community
from a small shelter to enable them become literate. By
running a free school for five years, Balmukund Yadav, who is
in his thirties, has instilled hope among villagers that their
children can be literate. More [+] |
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Keep pushing school
choice
www.postandcourier.com May 18,
2009
Last week, the S.C. Senate Education
Committee effectively killed legislation that could have given
some poor children stuck in long-struggling public schools a
private-school alternative. The bill's opponents may have
again prevailed in the political arena, but they have only
slowed the momentum for school choice in South Carolina. Sen.
Robert Ford, D-Charleston, had long opposed including private
schools in educational-choice programs. But citing the needs
of low-income children in low-performing schools, he
introduced that bill to deliver expanded choice through tax
credits, for parents paying tuition and businesses providing
scholarships. Foes of his bill argue that private schools lack
accountability because they aren't bound by regulations
governing public schools. They overlook the ultimate
accountability that parents exert on private schools. More [+] |
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Voucher Study's Approach
and Outcomes Questioned
School Choice
Demonstration Project; Department of Education Reform,
University of Arkansas
May 18, 2009
Review concludes that positive test-score
effects of voucher competition on Milwaukee public schools are
very small at best A recent report contends that competition
from Milwaukee's private school voucher program for low-income
families has benefited Milwaukee public schools. A new review
of that report raises a number of questions about its
statistical methods and concludes that any positive effect of
competition is very small, if it exists at all. More [+] |
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Now, govt. plans guidelines
for schools to care for sick
students
www.expressindia.com, May 19,
2009
The Delhi government is mulling over the
possibility of evolving a set of guidelines directing schools
to care for children with a history of illness. The
development comes a month after Akkriti Bhatia, 17, died after
suffering an asthma attack while attending class at Modern
School, Vasant Vihar on April 20. More [+] |
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India's first
education-focused PE fund has back-to-basics
tack
www.livemint.com, May 19
2009
Kaizen says it will play in the highly
regulated schools business; share profits with teachers to
maximize results In a growing aspirant economy such as India,
education enjoys pride of place among heads of expenditure in
most middle income homes. It is this spending that
Kaizen-India's first private equity (PE) fund being raised to
focus on investing in education businesses-aims to tap into.
The Kaizen Education Fund I, being put together by Reema
Shetty, Akhil Shahani, Sandeep Aneja and Jetu Lalvani, who
together have at least 65 years of experience in education and
private equity, hopes to raise $100-150 million (Rs482-723
crore). More [+] |
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The performance of decentralized school systems : evidence from Fe y Alegrķa in Venezuela
This program evaluation estimates the effects on standardized test scores of graduating from the Fe y Alegrķa private school system in Venezuela. The authors find an Average Treatment Effect on the order of 0.1 standard deviations (approximately 16 percent of the average score), using a control group of public school students. These effects are significantly larger for households at the bottom of the distribution, and smaller for those at the top. The authors posit that the better performance of the Fe y Alegrķa system stems from their labor contract flexibility and decentralized administrative structure.
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ASER 2008 Findings:
Nearly 1/5th of the schools in the country are under private management.
The enrolment of children of the age group 6-14 has increased to 22.5% (2008) from 16.4% in 2005.
An average of 28% of the rural population of India has access to fee charging private schools
ASER Report 2008 |
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