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BLOG // RISHI VASHISTHA
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Design Sprint: improving education quality in budget private schools
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Through
a one-week Design Sprint, University of Chicago Graduates under the
International Innovation Corps (IIC) Fellowship programme are
partnering with Centre for Civil Society (CCS)'s National Independent
Schools Alliance (NISA) initiative. They will work closely with CCS to
explore ways of improving quality of education in budget private
schools in India, and present at UChicago's Center in Delhi on Friday.
The RTE Platform spoke to Will Gossin, who is leading the Design Sprint programme in India.
Some excerpts:
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FULL STORY >>
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VIDEO // THE RTE PLATFORM
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About NISA
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Know
more about the National Independent Schools Alliance (NISA) initiative
of Centre for Civil Society. Currently, almost 36,400 schools under 20
state private school associations affiliated to NISA adress
the needs of ~9.35 million children across India.
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VIDEOS
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RESEARCH // SANGEETA GOYAL AND PRIYANKA PANDEY, THE WORLD BANK, 2010
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How do government and private schools differ?
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This
paper uses survey data from representative samples of government and
private schools in two states of India, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya
Pradesh, to explore systematic differences between the two school
types. We find that private school students have higher test scores
than government school students. However, in both private and
government schools the overall quality is low and learning gains from
one grade to the next are small. There is large variation in the
quality of both school types; and observed school and teacher
characteristics are weakly correlated with learning outcomes. There is
considerable sorting among students, and those from higher
socio-economic strata select into private schools. Private schools have
lower pupil-teacher ratios and seven to eight times lower teacher
salaries but do not differ systematically in infrastructure and teacher
effort from government schools. Most of the variation in teacher
effort is within schools and is weakly correlated with observed teacher
characteristics such as education, training, experience.
After
controlling for observed student and school characteristics, the
private school advantage over government schools in test scores varies
by state, school type and grade. Private unrecognized schools do
better than private recognized schools. Given the large salary
differential, private schools would clearly be more cost effective even
in the case of no absolute difference in test scores.
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OPINION
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DID YOU KNOW?
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FEATURED PUBLICATION
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Should the government decide teacher qualifications and salary norms for private schools?
Section
23 of the RTE Act authorises the government to lay down rules for
minimum qualifications for becoming a teacher, and also for deciding
their salary and allowances.
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The 25 percent fee reimbursement system is so weak that many private schools don't apply only!
Instead,
they make up for the money from elsewhere, often transferring the
financial burden on the fee-paying 75% to accomodate the non-fee-paying
25% in private schools.
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School Management Committees: Insights, Challenges and Way-forward
Central Square Foundation November 2013
An Overview of Seminar Sessions and Discussions
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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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Maharashtra // DNA // 22 July 2014
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What RTE? Maharashtra simply has no schools in 2,085 villages
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Assam
diaries: On April 8 2014, 11- year-old Radhika Gurung, studying in
Class IV, was returning from school nearly 7 km away with her sisters
Chandra and Maya along the river Teesta near Bardang, Sikkim. Suddenly,
without having any time to respond, all three school girls were washed
away by force of water released by upstream Teesta dam. While Maya and
Chandra were lucky to be saved, Radhika wasn't. She lost her life.
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NCT of Delhi // The Hindu // 19 July 2014
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Rs 2,482 crore allocated to education sector
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With
nearly one lakh students enrolling in Delhi Government schools each
year, the city requires around 500 new schools to meet the demand as
per norms under the Right to Education Act, noted Union Finance
Minister Arun Jaitley while presenting the Delhi Budget on Friday.
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Maharashtra // Times of India // 18 July 2014
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Schools unhappy with RTE provisions
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NAGPUR:
Maharashtra Rajya Shikshan Sanstha Mahamandal (MRSSM), the Pune-based
powerful union representing school managements in state, has expressed
unhappiness with state government over implementation of the Right To
Education (RTE) Act. RTE has a wide ambit, from admission to
infrastructure, but MRSSM's biggest gripe is with the way the education
pattern in state is being altered to realign with that of the Act. For
decades, the state has followed the 4+3+3 (primary, middle and high
school) pattern but now it has been changed to 5+3+2.
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Gujarat // Deccan Herald // 17 July 2014
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IIMA's 'Prayas' makes right to education a reality
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The
management lessons they learn are sure to fetch them top-notch
corporate jobs, but for students of Indian Institute of Management
Ahmedabad (IIMA), helping underprivileged children get school admission
under the Right To Education Act has offered more valuable experience
in social responsibility.
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Haryana // DNA // 16 July 2014
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Haryana Education Minister bats for return of detention in schools
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Haryana
Education Minister Geeta Bhukkal on Wednesday made a strong pitch for
the re-introduction of the detention policy in schools, arguing that
not having such a system had led to a sharp fall in the learning
outcomes of students. Bhukkal, who headed a sub-committee to review the
'no- detention policy' under the Right to Education Act (RTE),
suggested that there was an urgent need to adopt a way to examine and
assess learning outcomes.
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