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A school with a view
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Swajan Siksha Samiti, an alternative education school perched on a hill in Ghati village in Uttarakhand, revives local culture and encourages creative learning. It has a zero dropout rate
Backgrounders
Challenges in implementing the RTE Act
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The budget for implementation of the RTE Act throughout the country is just half of the amount spent on the 2010 Commonwealth Games, so funds are scarcely the problem. Why is there a resistance to complete implementation of the Act from states, centre and civil society?Analysis
The bogey of the impressionable mind
In the wake of the controversy over the Nehru/Ambedkar cartoon in NCERT textbooks, Havovi Wadia and Arun Kumar point out the folly of seeing children as empty vessels and passive absorbers of information, incapable of engaging actively with the learning process The row in parliament on May 13, 2012 over a cartoon in the NCERT textbook on political science (Class XI) has brought to the surface assumptions, prejudices and fears that have always brewed in public discourse in India. |
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News
8% of primary school teachers in Bihar fail Class V testAround 8,000 teachers were unable to answer simple questions on science, math, English and Hindi and will lose their jobs if they fail a second time After a major report on the state of education showed up the poor quality of education in the country despite higher enrolment figures (see High-enrolment-but-poor-quality-education-says-annual-education-report), the focus should naturally shift to quality of teaching. This is what the Bihar government is doing after discovering that the level of knowledge of its teachers is poor. Eight per cent of teachers could not pass a paper set for Class V students. |
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Books & Reports
A School for everyoneBy Anuradha Kumar
In his autobiography, My Experiments with Truth, Mahatma Gandhi writes of the visit of a school inspector. The teacher was anxious that every pupil he tutored got his spellings right and so when the young Mohandas misspelled the word ‘kettle’, the teacher did his best to prompt him or hint that he cheat from a classmate who had the correct spelling. |
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A new take on private schools in developing countries, which sees them not as money-making machines exploiting the poor, but as a much needed asset that can help fulfil the goal of a decent education for allStories of Change
Village girls in Rajasthan get a leg-up Residential balika shikshan shivirs (girls’ education camps), set up by the Society to Uplift Rural Economy in Rajasthan’s Barmer district, encourage girls to get away from everyday chores in the home and pursue their education In Rajasthan’s Barmer district, girls’ education is a low priority for most local families. Although they are integral to the family economy -- they help manage households, take care of younger siblings, and work in agriculture and animal husbandry -- girls have traditionally never been allowed to study. |
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Changemakers
Paying girls to stay in school The problem of the girl-child in India is an economic one, former corporate chief Virendra Singh realised. His Pardada Pardadi school in Anoopshahr, UP, keeps girls in school by offering them three meals a day, ten rupees for every day they attend school, a bicycle after two years and a toilet at home after three years. Sam (Virendra Singh) retired as one of the top bosses at DuPont. But instead of settling down in a shiny happy American suburb, he returned to Anoopshahr, a small village in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district, to start a girl’s school that pays girls to stay in school. |
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Statistics
Changes in education expenditure over the yearsExpenditure on Education in IndiaGross Drop-out Rate in Primary, Middle and Secondary Schools in IndiaNumber of Teachers, by Type of Schools, from 1950-51 to 2000-01 |