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EVENTS
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School Choice National Conference: Freedom in Education
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19 DECEMBER 2014 AT THE THEATRE, INDIA HABITAT CENTRE, NEW DELHI
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School
Choice National Conference (SCNC) is an annual event that provides a
much needed platform to identify critical issues in the education
sector, review existing programs, explore strategies to face the
challenges ahead and ideate on ingenious solutions to provide quality
education to all children in India.
For more information, contact Rohan Joshi; M: +91-96501 27755; E: [email protected]
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CLICK HERE TO REGISTER >>
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11th Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival
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Calling for entries on livelihood issues in Education!
Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Festival is a unique platform that
highlights livelihood challenges and regulatory barriers faced by the
rural and urban entrepreneurs in Asia. For the Education World-Jeevika Freedom Award, in partnership with Education
World Magazine, we invite applications for outstanding documentaries by
professionals and students that highlight livelihood challenges or
successes of people working in the education sector.
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CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT >>
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VCCIRCLE Education Investment Summit
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27 NOV 2014 AT WELCOMHOTEL SHERATON, SAKET, NEW DELHI |
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The
summit will feature all leading and emerging edupreneurs, investors,
consultants looking out for latest trends & next big opportunity in
the K-12, higher education, training space, besides newly emerged
segments such as vocational training, pre-school and interactive
digital e-learning courses.
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CLICK HERE TO REGISTER >>
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RESEARCH, REPORTS AND PAPERS
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| The State, Socialization, and Private Schooling: When Will Governments Support Alternative Producers? |
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LANT PRITCHETT AND MARTINA VIARENGO |
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Understanding
the institutional features that can improve learning outcomes and
reduce inequality is a top priority for international and development
organizations around the world. Economists appear to have a good case
for support to non-governmental alternatives as suppliers of schooling.
However, unlike other policy domains, freer international trade or
privatization, economists have been remarkably unsuccessful in
promoting the adoption of this idea.
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FULL PAPER >>
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Attacking Homeschooling Is Attacking Choice
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| HEATHER KAYS |
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Homeschooling
seems to be an easy target for critics of school choice. It
always has been. With homeschoolers being by definition outside
the education establishment, some people attach a stigma to their
choice, suggesting that homeschooled children and their families must
be somewhat weird. Recent claims about Adam Lanza, perpetrator of
the Newtown massacre, are just the latest and perhaps most egregious
example. |
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FULL PAPER >>
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Putting teacher training on track |
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ASHISH DHAWAN
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Less
than 6% of the 6.6 lakh teacher education programme graduates who
appeared for the recent Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET)
conducted by CBSE were able to clear it. Our current teacher
preparation system is failing those who choose this profession and is
in urgent need of reform. We need to honour the commitment of those
entering the teaching profession by taking steps to create
high-performing teacher education institutes (TEIs) that are building
effective and motivated teachers.
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FULL PAPER >>
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Top-Down Reform vs Market Reform of K-12 Education
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BENJAMIN SCAFIDI
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Newly
elected officials interested in “improving” K-12 education might sound
a lot like Optimus Prime: “Reform and roll out!” But just like the
Transformers, although policymakers’ reforms will differ and change,
they’re all inherently the same. America has seen “reforms” of public
education since 1644, when Rev. Ralph Wheelock became the first teacher
in the country’s first tax-supported school.
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FULL PAPER >>
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CCS RESEARCH
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Not Anurag Behar, Not Smriti Irani, Ramchandara’s Wife Knows Best What’s Good For Her Kids
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KUMAR ANAND
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This
is real life story of the family of Ramchander, or Ramchandara, as he
is called by his friends and acquaintances. Ramchandara is one of the
“below below average” IQ person, with almost no skills. He earlier used
to make a living working as a daily unskilled labourer to support his
family of five – his wife, three young sons and himself. But even this
typically unskilled work was too much for him and soon he found it hard
to find employment, as his capacity to add value was significantly less
than an average daily labourer in this small town of Bihar, and labour
is quite abundant in this part of the country. Soon the word got around
that Ramchandara was lazy who hardly does anything when on the job.
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FULL PAPER >>
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Hiring of permanent teachers in government schools: Effect of ‘Teacher Eligibility Test’
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SHEFALIKA
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This
study examines the effect of ‘Teacher Eligibility Test’ (TET) on the
recruitment process of permanent teachers in government schools.
Following the implementation of RTE, TET has been described as a step
in right direction in portraying government’s non-compromising attitude
towards quality of government school teacher. In spite of being in
force for the past four years, a formal study on the assessment of TET
is yet to be concluded. Such a need for comprehensive assessment of TET
becomes even more imminent with the revelation of several fallacies in
RTE provisions at a policy level. This study briefly examines the
genesis of TET, its objectives and how it seeks to fill the gaps in the
recruitment procedure by ensuring quality. Through qualitative analysis
and semi-structured interviews, it tries to find the benefits and
limitations of TET on its various stakeholders.
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FULL PAPER >>
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Does Quality of Education Really Matter for School Choice?
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SAYAN KUNDU AND SUPRIYA DAS |
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the past few years, the number of Budget Private Schools (BPS) and the
number of children enrolled in them have dramatically increased. These
schools compete with government schools in providing education to
children of low-income and low-education households. However, such
proliferation of BPS schools is ironic given that under the Right to
Education Act (2009), education is ‘free’ for all students in
government schools. This paper seeks to understand why parents choose
to pay a fee to BPS over availing the free services of government
schools. Further, it explores which are the factors that are most
relevant to parent decision making. Our primary data suggests that it
is ‘socio-economic factors’ rather than ‘educational factors’ that
drive to the decision of low-income parents in sending their children
to BPS.
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FULL PAPER >>
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