| SC Begins
Crucial Hearing on Right to Education
Outlook, February 17, 2011
With the admission season on, the Supreme Court today
began a crucial hearing on the validity of some provisions
of the Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act with
minority and private unaided institutions opposing the
mandatory reservation of 25 per cent seats for economically
backward sections under the legislation.
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Right to Education
Act: UP estimates Rs 30k-cr expenditure
Business Standard, February 17, 2011
Uttar Pradesh has estimated an expenditure
of Rs 30,000 crore in implementing the Right to Education
Act 2009 across the state. The Act calls for free and
compulsory primary education to children between six
and 14 years.
Replying to a question, Uttar Pradesh Basic Education
Minister Dharam Singh Saini said at the ongoing budget
session of the state assembly, Rs 30,158 crore was needed
for appointing teachers, school staff and creating necessary
infrastructure for three years under the regulation
of the Act.
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| Ensuring children
learn a challenge
Mint, February 16, 2011
Budget 2011 is all set to give elementary
education a significant boost. Media reports indicate
the human resource development (HRD) ministry is seeking
a budget of Rs34,000 crore for implementing the Right
to Education Act (RTE). This is a significant jump from
last year’s elementary education allocation of
Rs22,667 crore, of which Rs15,000 crore was allocated
to the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the primary vehicle
for delivering RTE.
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| Govt plans
to offer vocational skill training to 50 crore people
by 2022
DNA, February 16, 2011
Centre has evolved a plan to impart
training and education in vocational skills to 50 crore
people by 2022 to address the critical issue of unemployment,
union minister Ashwani Kumar said today. The central
government has also decided to set up an Academy of
Scientific and Innovative Research with powers to award
degrees, and a Bill for the purpose would be introduced
in the ensuing budget session of Parliament, the minister
of state for science and technology said.
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| Digital classrooms:
The future of young India
Business Standard, February 21, 2011
Keeping pace with students who are
becoming more tech-savvy, schools in India are taking
to the concept of digital classrooms — a new education
technology that assists teachers with course-ware and
maintenance support in digital format.
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Basic education
is still a poor child
Times of India, February 18, 2011
Will Union Budget 2011-12 offer greater
monetary share for the promotion of basic education?
As it is the first budget after the implementation of
Right to Education Act, the expectations from the finance
minister are high. Many human rights activists have
started making noises, asking for an increased share
in the budget to ensure the fundamental rights of children.
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| A different
kind of school bullying problem in the D.C. voucher-program
battle
Washington Post, February 21, 2011
U.S. legislators have some nerve telling
the District government that Congress will probably
cut funding for the city’s public schools if D.C.
officials don’t revive a federal voucher program.
The issue in this case isn’t whether you support
the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program. The issue
is that such threats from federal lawmakers make a mockery
out of thoughtful school reform and policymaking, not
to mention the right of District residents to govern
themselves.
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Novel SCERT
project for English teaching
Times of India, February 21, 2011
Don’t be surprised if students
greet you with ‘good morning’ rather than
‘namaste’ in the remote areas of Madhubani
these days.They are not discarding their culture, nor
simply following the latest Western trend. The pupils
and teachers of government high schools in Madhubani
are honing their English as part of a spoken English
and capacity building programme.
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Research
Paper
Competition from private schools boosts performance
system-wide
ABSTRACT: Does private competition
work in the schooling sector? This column presents evidence
that countries with more privately operated schools
perform substantially better on international tests
of student achievement. To isolate the causal effect
of private competition, the column focuses on variation
in private school shares that has deep historical roots
– Catholic opposition to state-run education systems
in the 19th century.
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Book
of the Month
Teaching 2030:What we must do
for our students and our public schools - Now and in
the future
by Kenneth J. Bernstein
In all of the public discourse of what
we need to do to fix public schools and educate our
young people for the future, one set of voices has until
now been conspicuously absent. It is the voices of teachers.
This book is an important attempt to include the voices
of teachers in helping frame the discussion of how we
address our educational needs.Read
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Interview
with Baela Raza Jamil
Baela Raza Jamil, Coordinator of South
Asian Forum for Education Development , talks about
the role of communities in ensuring quality education
and the experience of Pakistan with public private partnerships
and vouchers.
Click here
for the video
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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! Magazine
The second issue of Student First! Magazine is out.
The theme for this issue is Public Private Partnerships
in Education.
For more click 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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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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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
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Kannada, Telegu, Gujarati and Marathi in India. To
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