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RESEARCH, REPORTS AND PAPERS
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| Majority Leader Eric Cantor: School Choice Is a Threat to the Status Quo |
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FRED DEWS |
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"School
choice is a threat to the status quo," House Majority Leader Eric
Cantor (R-VA) said yesterday at an event at Brookings to unveil the
third annual Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI). During the
event, hosted by the Brown Center on Education Policy, Leader Cantor,
citing the ECCI, claimed that "America is in the midst of an education
revolution, with a shift towards more choice for families," a shift he
said is important because: [America] cannot be a great country without
great schools. I think education, in so many ways, represents the
answer to not only the kids' futures, but the future of those
communities, the future competitiveness of our country, and … future
success in trying to lift folks out of poverty.
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FULL PAPER >>
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Support for School Choice Continues to Grow
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| JASON BEDRICK |
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Today,
Education Next released its latest survey results on education policy.
As with the Friedman Foundation’s survey earlier this year and previous
Education Next surveys, scholarship tax credits (STCs) remain the most
popular form of private educational choice. STCs garnered support from
60% of respondents compared to 50% support for universal school
vouchers and only 37% support for low-income vouchers. |
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FULL PAPER >>
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A Flexible Mobile Education System Approach |
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ARZU BALOGLU
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Distance
learning is appealing to small business owners, employees,
municipalities, state establishments, non-governmental organizations.
Distance-learning are ideal for people who have a full-time job or
other commitments, who can’t take time off to study full time. This
might be a professional who needs to update his knowledge or skills, or
a mother who wants to refresh her qualifications before re-entering the
labor market.
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FULL PAPER >>
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Is loss of autonomy trapping higher education?
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RITU BHANDARI
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In
our last weekly your view, we asked you whether higher education
institutions not enjoying autonomy in matters of policy is an important
reason for poor quality graduates in our country. Out of 18 poll
takers, 94 % of you agreed with the above statement while the remaining
6 % of you disagreed. Today, when India has achieved almost universal
enrollment of elementary education, there is a huge population of first
generation learners accompanied by parents with aspirations and
awareness about what education can do. A large percentage of our
country’s poor parents are aware and want to send their children to
college.
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CCS RESEARCH
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School Closures in Haryana: Learning from past experiences
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ARJUN MALHOTRA
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This
paper seeks to bring much needed attention to the problem of school
closures due to Sections 18 and 19 of the Right to Education Act, 2009
with a case study of four schools in one district of Haryana. This
paper documents the problems schools in Haryana faced because of
Haryana School Education Rules, 2003 and makes an attempt to
extrapolate those problems to the current situation. This research
revealed myriad of problems that plague the education sector in Haryana
like inability of budget private schools to comply with the norms, lax
attitude of government schools in adhering with the norms and massive
corruption in the education sector. It provides policy recommendations
and arguments based on past experiences of school closures in Haryana
as to why existing schools could meet with the same fate as those
schools. The findings of this research are only tentative and further
in- depth research needs to be conducted on this topic.
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Per Child Funding Formula in Indian education: Analysis and Applications
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NAYANTARA NATH
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Computation
of per child funding in education in India is done in the most dubious
of ways, by pre-determining the total allocation and then dividing it
by the total enrolment in the country. This is highly problematic as
the allocation rarely acts as a guiding factor for the actual
expenditure, and the total enrolment in the country is a highly
inflated and unreliable estimate. This, in turn, implies that there is
a great deal of inefficiency in calculating and dispersing the funds in
education.
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FULL PAPER >>
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