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BLOG // PRIYANKA ANAND CHADHA
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Re-writing a Right, to set it right!
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Right
to Education Act, 2009 – a landmark act that gives every child in the
age group of six to fourteen years the right to full time elementary
education? Or, an act that is incapacitating the education sector due
to unduly stringent regulation and norms? For India to grow
economically, and for this growth to be inclusive, the country needs to
ensure an educated and skilled population – one that we are currently
struggling to provide. An act that ensures universal access to
education should therefore be welcomed with open arms. However, with
its current flaws and bureaucratic obstacles, the Act is undermining
the very purpose it stands for.
The RTE, in its current structure, emphasises solely the duties and
inputs into provision of education, implicitly assuming that adherence
to these will ensure a healthy sector, which will increase access as
well as quality.
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FULL STORY >>
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VIDEO // THE RTE PLATFORM
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India's greatest need is to give high-school education to as many citizens as possible
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RTE
Classic: Watch the interview with Nirvikar Singh, Professor
and Director, Business Management Economics, Department of
Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, US.
MORE
VIDEOS
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RESEARCH // LOUISIANA FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN, FEBRUARY 2014
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Policy Brief: Expanding options for students and parents
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This
article deals with the exchange of options for students and parents
through school vouchers and scholarship tax credits and rebate
programmes. Here we have a case study of Louisiana, highlighting the
impact of school vouchers and other scholarship programmes. In
Louisiana, hundreds of thousands of children have been tapped in
failing schools, barring the children in these schools from a
successful future. Thus there is need for immediate alternatives for
better schooling systems and governance, through vouchers and
scholarship tax credit programmes.
This
report focuses on two school choice programmes, vouchers and
scholarship tax credit and rebates, by looking into various such
programmes implemented in the country. Thus the impact of these
programmes, in terms of learning outcomes and parental satisfaction had
been analyzed.
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FULL STORY >>
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OPINION
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DID YOU KNOW?
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
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Which, out of these amendments, has a greater potential to reinforce RTE in its current form?
A. Linking teacher promotion
to student performance
B. Making educational attainment, and not age, the criteria for escalation to the next class
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Military
spending far exceeds investment in education around the world - there
are at least 150 soldiers for every 100 teachers in the world.
45%
of world's children who are out of school are in China, India and
Pakistan. One key reason is the preference for military expenditure
over educational investment.
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Agenda for Change
Action Plan for the Economy
Bibek Debroy, Parth J Shah
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POLLS AND DISCUSSIONS
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DYKs
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PUBLICATIONS
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THE RTE NEWSREEL
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All India/National // The Economic
Times // 30 June 2014
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Poor education quality biggest impediments to faster economic growth: World Bank
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Low
education outcomes and poor quality of education are the biggest
impediments to faster economic growth, as it continues to trap young
people in poverty, according to the World Bank. In a report, Student
Learning in South Asia, released by the World Bank on Monday, a
comprehensive assessment has been made of the educational systems
across the region spanning Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,
Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
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All India/National // LiveMint // 27 June 2014
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Why the government's recent report on educational outcomes is misleading
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Amidst
the brouhaha over Delhi University’s undergraduate programme, a recent
report on school education by the education ministry has almost escaped
the radar. The annual flash statistics report released last week by the
District Information System for Education (DISE) has come up with
several surprising findings.
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Global/International // Zee News // 27 June 2014
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India has over 1 million children out of school: UN
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New
York: India, Indonesia and Pakistan each have more than a million
children out of school, according to a UN report which said the global
number of unschooled children aged 6 to 11 is still as high as 58
million, showing little overall improvement since 2007. The United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
report said that India had 1.4 million children out of school in 2011
but the country is among 17 other nations that have managed to reduce
the number of out-of-school children in the past decade.
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The Asian Age // Chhattisgarh // 27 June
2014
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Century-old royal-run college opens to the poor
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The
famed Raj Kumar College (RKC) here, founded and run by the erstwhile
royal families of eastern India, has shed its century-old elitist
legacy by opening its gates to the poor this year, thanks to the
revolutionary Right to Education (RTE) Act. The RKC, conceived by the
chief commissioner of Central Province headquartered at Jabalpur in
Madhya Pradesh, Sir Andrew Fraser, in 1882 to teach the scions of
erstwhile royal families of now Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Jharkhand,
apparently to produce an English-speaking elite class to deal with
British officers, has consented to admit to the nursery class six
children from BPL families in the current academic year.
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Times of India // Maharashtra // 26 June 2014
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Education commissioner’s nod must for school staff appointments
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PUNE:
Schools in the state recognized by the government will now need
permission from the education commissioner and undergo a scrutiny
before appointing teaching and non-teaching staff. A government
notification on June 20 has stated that a ban on teachers' recruitment
imposed in 2011 has been lifted, but appointing new teaching and
non-teaching staff would require permission from the state commissioner
of education.
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