| Answering
the Question: How Good is This School?
Mint, February 7, 2011
The Right to Education Act purports
to put in place several infrastructural and process
parameters that are supposed to ensure quality of education
for all children – quality of access, quality
of school and class room processes and finally learning
outcomes.
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| Effect: 80%
drop in reporting dyslexia
Mid-Day, February 7, 2011
The learning disability cases among
children are going vastly underreported in the city,
courtesy the implementation of the Right to Education
(RTE) Act, which mandates that students between Std
I and VIII will not be failed.
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Parents left
in the lurch
Hindustan Times, February 7,
2011
Rahul Kapoor, a chartered accountant
by profession, had applied to 11 schools for his son’s
nursery admission but could not make it to even one
school. The reason being all too familiar: “We
missed out on the alumni and sibling points,”
he said. Kapoor is one of the many parents in the city
whose child could not secure a nursery admission in
any of the rather too many schools they had applied
to. And most of these parents have little or no hope
from the second list. “There is no point in waiting
for the second list as even the waiting list has candidates
with alumni and sibling points,” Kapoor said.
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| AITCE row:
Sibal to meet B-schools again
MSN, February 7, 2011
Management schools seem to be getting
no respite from the norms made by the All India Council
for Technical Education (AICTE) regarding the regulation
of the Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) programmes
in the country. In a meeting with human resource development
minister Kapil Sibal, representatives from management
schools and the Education Promotion Society for India
(EPSI) put forth their concerns and asked for the AICTE
notification to be reassessed. The society has more
than 250 management schools as its members.
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Now, vocational
education from Class VIII
Indian Express, February 6,
2011
The state has taken the initiative
to introduce vocational education at the secondary school
level from Class VIII. The move is a part of the national
drive to provide vocational training to 550 million
students by 2022.
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| Fake agents
render students’ foreign dream sour
DNA, February 7, 2011
The large-scale mushrooming of fake
Indian agents working on behalf of lesser-known foreign
universities are to blame for students falling prey
to fraudulent institutions like Tri-Valley University
(TVU) in the US, say experts.
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What school
vouchers have bought for my family
Washington Post, February 5,
2011
I worried constantly about my daughter
Jerlisa when she attended our neighborhood elementary
school. I knew that I wanted a better education for
her, but I didn’t know how to make that happen.
In 2005, I took a chance and applied to the D.C. Opportunity
Scholarship Program. Little did I know how much more
than $7,500 I would be gaining.
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| The Reformers
Are Leaving Our Schools in the 20th Century
Huffington Post, February 4,
2011
In his State of the Union, President
Obama rightly proclaimed that we need to “out-educate.”
But what he should have added is that “We can’t
win the future with the education of the past.”
Despite the good intentions of the President, Arne Duncan,
Bill Gates and other education reformers — and
despite all the money being thrown at our educational
problems – I believe we are going to end up with
an educational system that is incapable of preparing
the bulk of our students for the issues and realities
they will face in the 21st century.
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| Research Paper
Highly Successful Schools: What Do They Do Differently
and at What Cost?
ABSTRACT: An underlying premise of
many resource adequacy studies is that reaching a specified
set of educational outcomes is directly dependent on
the level of resources. This article analyzes resource
allocation practices among successful schools, low-performing
schools, and average public schools in California.
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Photo
of the Month
After India's strong reaction on the California-based
Tri-Valley University fraud, the US hinted it is ready
to reinstate the immigration status of the affected
Indian students.
Image Courtesy: India Today
Student First! Magazine
The second issue of Student First!
Magazine is out. The theme for this issue is Public
Private Partnerships in Education.
Read it here
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Skill Vouchers -
Global Experiences and Lessons for India
Leah Verghese and Parth J Shah
A study of the role that skill vouchers can play in
catalysing demand for quality skill development services.
This study examines global experiences with skill vouchers
and draws lessons for India from these experiences.
For more click here
Reservation in Private Schools
under the Right to Education Act: Model for Implementation
Shekhar Mittal and Parth J Shah
Through this document the Centre for
Civil Society seeks to highlight the lacunae in the
current framework for 25% reservation for weaker and
disadvantaged groups in unaided private schools and
seeks to provide inputs on effective implementation
of the same.
For more click 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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101 Things You Wanted To Know About The Police
But Were Too Afraid To Ask
A Children's Book for Adults to Learn from is an easy
guide to knowing your police. Commonwealth Human Rights
Initiative (CHRI) believes that only when we know that
we can speak up with confidence, and it is only when
we speak out against wrong, that things will change.
The book is brought out in this hope - that people knowing
all about their police and their own rights - will use
this knowledge to demand the better police service that
we all deserve. This has been published in various languages
like Hindi, English, Kannada, Telegu, Gujarati and Marathi
in India. To know more about these books or for a copy
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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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