| Big-ticket
education deals this week
Charu Sudan Kasturi, Hindustan Times,
November 7, 2010
US President Barack Obama’s visit
to India is set to start to an unprecedented wave of
back-to-back, big-ticket international education deals
over the coming week aimed at making India a global
education destination. India will sign key education
pacts with Canada on Tuesday and the UK on Thursday
after finalising projects with Obama’s delegation
on Monday, top government sources confirmed.
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| India will
do well to learn the US vocational education model
Prashant K. Nanda, Mint, November
4, 2010
India is a developing country with
a developed talent— that’s what Jack Welch,
then chief executive of General Electric Co. (GE), said
a decade ago. That sentiment is behind education emerging
as one of the key areas of collaboration between the
US and India. Sample this: Human resource development
minister Kapil Sibal has travelled to the US twice in
the last six months along with top bureaucrats and academics.
Several US officials, including secretary of state Hillary
Clinton and under secretary of state for public diplomacy
and public affairs Judith McHale, have reiterated the
need for better educational tie-ups.
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| No poll duty
for govt teachers during school hours
Sandeep Dua, The Times of India,
November 7, 2010
Government teachers who have been crying foul over
being posted for election duties during school timings
can now be asked to do their duties after the hours.
In his letter to all the deputy commissioners of Punjab,
the Director General of School Education (DGSE) Krishan
Kumar said that they should not call the teachers for
the census counting or for election duties during school
timings. The copy of the Right to Education Act has
also been sent to the DCs as per the order of the Supreme
Court.
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| Drama behind
the RTE Act
PTI, October 4, 2010
The Central Government may be basking
in self-admiration for having enacted a legislation
that provides for free and compulsory education to every
child aged 6 to 14. The road to realising this long-cherished
but seldom-pursued goal, however, is marred by several
challenges. More than seven months after the landmark
Right to Education (RTE) Act came into force, its implementation
in the State remains on a shaky ground as private schools,
especially in Bangalore, continue to raise serious objections
to various key clauses of the legislation. These schools
may be criticised for being ‘elitist and snobby’,
but they insist they are “not against the legislation
per se”. .
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| Mid Day Meal
scheme hits rough weather
Anupam Bhagria, Indian Express,
November 1, 2010
The Mid Day Meal Scheme, which was
started to enhance enrolment and maintenance of good
student strength in government schools, has come to
a halt in some schools. The scheme was kicked off all
over India in 2003, under which the schools get raw
materials like wheat and rice from the district Food
and Civil Supplies department and funds for processing
are given by the Central and state governments. Sources
say that due to non-availability of ration and funds,
the scheme has been stopped in some schools of the district.
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| School Choice
on Trial
Wall Street Journal, November
3, 2010
School choice plans are proliferating
around the nation, and today the Supreme Court will
hear a case that could stop them cold on dubious legal
grounds. In Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization
v. Winn, the question is whether a scholarship tax credit
program that has operated in Arizona since 1997 violates
the First Amendment’s clause that “Congress
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
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| Dramatic Election
Gains for School Choice
Business Wire, November 5,
2010
The future for school choice programs
across the country brightened dramatically this week
in the wake of the election of several new governors
and state legislators, strengthening a growing bipartisan
coalition for school choice, according to the American
Federation for Children (AFC). “Now is the time
to move forward with big, bold change that will ensure
equal educational opportunity for every child.”
The Federation and its affiliated political committees
were triumphant in almost every one of the 200+ state
elections in which the organizations were involved and
invested over $3 million in state primary and general
elections.In key states for the school choice movement—including
Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Georgia, Ohio, and Wisconsin—school
choice champions made significant gains.
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| Miles to go
for proper schooling
Sabloo Thomas, New Indian Express,
November 7, 2010
The provision in the Right to Education
(RTE) Act that a child should be able to access a school
within a kilometre’s walk is seen by many as the
most revolutionary part of the Act. But the challenge
is to transfer the radical fervour seen on paper to
reality. This reporter went down to the Attappady tribal
area of Palakkad district in Kerala, the most educationally-backward
region in a state that has the highest literacy rate
in the country, looking for signs of transformation.
What I came across instead was a land that was deprived
of even the most basic facilities.Websites that appeal
to every taste and hobby help create virtual hang-outs
for the young.
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| Research Paper
The Impact of Public Education Expenditure on Human
Capital, Growth, and Poverty in Tanzania and Zambia-
A General Equilibrium Approach
Hong-Sang Jung and Erik Thorbecke
ABSTRACT:
The impact of public education expenditure
on human capital, the supply of different labor skills,
and its macroeconomic and distributional consequences
is appraised within a multisector CGE model. The model
is applied to and calibrated for two Heavily Indebted
Poor Countries (HIPCs), Tanzania and Zambia. The simulation
results suggest that education expenditure can raise
economic growth. However, to maximize benefits from
education expenditure, a sufficiently high level of
physical investment is needed, as are measures that
improve the match between the pattern of educational
output and the structure of effective demand for labor.
An important result of the simulation experiments is
that a well-targeted pattern of education expenditure
can be effective for poverty alleviation.
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Book
of the Month
Creative Dialogue: Talk for Thinking in the
Classroom
Robert Fisher
London: Routledge
In this challenging and thought provoking text, Robert
Fisher raises serious questions about questioning
and talk in the classroom. Creative Dialogue is well
documented with informative headings and is infused
with demonstrative stories from the traditional tales
featuring wise man and trickster, Nasruddin. These
stories not only illustrate the meaning of each chapter
but are guaranteed to capture the imagination of the
reader.
For more click here
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Student First! Magazine
The inaugural issue of Student
First! Magazine is out. Read it here |
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RTE Coalition
To initiate and continue the discussion
amongst concerned groups and individuals on the issue
of right of education and monitor the implementation
of the RTE Act, an RTE Coalition has been formed. Join
the coalition to make universal elementary education
a reality in India. Log on to www.righttoeducation.in
for more information.
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| Student First!
Dialogue Series
Topic: Social Audit in School Education
18 November 2010
Casuarina Hall, India Habitat Centre,
New Delhi
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School Choice National Conference
2010
18 December 2010, 9 am - 6 pm
The Theatre, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
To read more click
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SCHOOL VOUCHERS FOR GIRLS
400 girl children from poor families
of North East Delhi receive school vouchers for a
period of 4 years.
For details visit website
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Support Children's Right to Education of Choice!
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