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Why Race to
the Top and School Choice makes teachers and kids successful
The Exponent, March 22, 2011
“Let me tell you, what’s not working for
black kids and Hispanic kids and Native American kids
across this country is the status quo. That’s
what’s not working. What’s not working is
what we’ve been doing for decades now.”
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Kapil Sibal
gets support on semester from Vice-Chancellors
India Today, March 27, 2011
The Vice-Chancellors (V-Cs) of state
and central universities from across the country on
Saturday unanimously supported the semester system at
a two-day conference in the Capital.This delighted Union
human resource development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal,
who has firmly backed Delhi University V-C’s decision
to implement the semester system despite vociferous
protests from teachers.
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| HRD ministry
to launch massive higher education survey
Indiaedunews, March 24, 2011
New Delhi: The Human Resource Development
(HRD) Ministry has decided to launch a huge survey on
the state of higher education in India, owing to the
inadequacy of information that is available about the
subject. The ministry has assigned the task of conducting
the survey to the National University of Educational
Planning and Administration (NUEPA). The survey will
be completed in one year’s time.
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| A vocational
edge to a knowledge economy
Times of India, March 28, 2011
THE Indian higher education sector
has a mandate to increase its gross enrolment ratio
(GER) to 30% by 2020 from the present 13.5%. Speaking
at EDGE 2011, a three-day higher education conference
held in the Capital recently, Kapil Sibal, minister
for human resource development and communications and
information technology, said, “Even if we achieve
the target ratio we would still lag behind some of the
developed countries in the US where the current gross
enrolment ratio is 70%.”
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| GMR boss pledges
$340m for education
Times of India, March 23, 2011
GMR Group chairman Grandhi Mallikarjuna
Rao, a first-generation entrepreneur hailing from Srikakulam
in Andhra Pradesh, on Tuesday pledged $340 million (Rs
1,540 crore), which is equivalent to his personal share
in the infrastructure conglomerate, to improve education
among the undeserved sections of the society.
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Slip between
lip & cup
Times of India, March 28. 2011
The Right to Education (RTE) Act that
promises a right to free and compulsory education to
Every child between 6-14 years is going to complete
its first year on April 1. But, unfortunately, a number
of children of this age group are still out of school
in the district, though basic education authorities
claim there is no child left out of school in the district.
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| GOP seeks
to expand school voucher program
Wisconsin State Journal, March 26, 2011
A Republican Assembly leader plans
to add to the state budget bill an expansion of Milwaukee’s
voucher program to other school districts, potentially
giving more families in cities such as Madison access
to private and religious schools. Voucher advocates
say the time is ripe to expand the program to other
cities, especially with Republicans in control of state
government and a recent study suggesting students in
the 20-year-old Milwaukee program are testing as well
or better than their public school counterparts, with
a lower cost per pupil.
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Putting a Price
Tag on the ‘Right to Education’
Wall Street Journal , March 21, 2011
According to a new estimate put out
by a government spending accountability group, getting
existing Indian government schools to meet education
rules that came into effect last year could cost 152
billion rupees, or about $3.4 billion dollars.
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Research
Article
Public-Private Partnerships for Quality Education in
India
Karthik Muralidharan
ABSTRACT: While the focus of education
policy in developing countries such as India has largely
centered on increasing the resource base and the number
of government-run schools, the role of private fee-charging
schools in the primary education sector has not been
appreciated as much by academics and policy makers.
However, as several recent papers point out, private
fee-charging schools increasingly cater to a substantial
fraction of the primary-school going population in India.
In this essay, I first summarize evidence from all-India
data regarding the prevalence and characteristics of
private schools in India and show that they outperform
government-run schools on various measures of performance.
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ENABLE
– ARK & CCS’s School Access and Voucher
Programme
ARK’s work in Delhi has identified
many communities where children are facing multiple
social and economic challenges which put them at great
risk of being excluded, dropping out or never attending
school. To address this need ARK has partnered with
Centre for Civil Society (CCS)
to implement ENABLE (Ensure Access to Better Learning
Experiences), a school access and
voucher programme for underprivileged children in Shahdara.Read
more
School
Choice National Conference Video
Watch this video to catch the highlights
of the School Choice National Conference 2010 held at
India Habitat Centre.
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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Money for RTE
Has enough money been allocated to ensure effective
implementation of RTE? Cast your vote and tell us
your thoughts.
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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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