Tag Search: “schooling”
Micro-innovations in education
The poor quality of school teachers is widely acknowledged as a major obstacle to the educational success of children from low income families. STIR Education visited and spoke to over 3,000 teacher...
- Sharath Jeevan James Townsend
- 17 July, 2013
- Notes from the Field
Cycling to School: Increasing High School Enrolment for Girls in Bihar
This project studies the impact of an innovative Programme in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrolment by providing girls who continued to secondary ...
- Karthik Muralidharan Nishith Prakash
- 01 June, 2013
- IGC Research on India
Educating India: Choice, autonomy and learning outcomes
The Indian education system does not effectively promote the prior right of parents to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. This column argues that the degree of freedo...
- Parth J. Shah
- 22 May, 2013
- Articles
The invisible and urgent challenge of learning
While almost all six to fourteen year olds in India are enrolled in school, their performance is far below expected levels. The common view is that the problem can be addressed by filling gaps in the...
- Rukmini Banerji
- 20 May, 2013
- Articles
Using evidence for better policy: The case of primary education in India
While India has achieved considerable success in increasing primary school enrolment and improving input-based measures of school quality over the past 10 years, learning outcomes continue to be abysm...
- Karthik Muralidharan
- 18 March, 2013
- Articles
Improving Child Health and Schooling
This project collected information on whether the child received a health report card (and checkup), as well as attendance data for that child for each month of the school year. Combining this with in...
- Prabhat P. Ghosh Anjini Kochar
- 01 December, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Why Indian education needs to get back to reality
What is the best advice to give an Indian education department official? This column argues that the best thing officials can do is drop the assumptions and stick to reality – otherwise many children ...
- Rukmini Banerji
- 12 October, 2012
- Articles
How to keep more girls in school? Lessons from Bangladesh
For years developing countries have been trying to increase parents’ incentives to send their children, particularly girls, to school and keep them there. This column looks at the success of Banglades...
- Mushfiq Mobarak
- 24 September, 2012
- Articles
Education in Bihar: Still a long road ahead
In the north Indian state of Bihar, education has been improving faster than in the rest of the country. But as this column reminds us, Bihar is starting from the bottom. For education to continue to ...
- Nishith Prakash
- 07 September, 2012
- Articles
Misguided policy and school inequality in rural India
Despite government efforts, stark inequality in India’s schools persists, particularly in rural areas. This column argues that the failure may lie in policy design – rather than helping the worst scho...
- Anjini Kochar
- 18 August, 2012
- Articles
Food for thought: On the design of school subsidy programmes
Despite significant increase in primary school enrollments, student attendance rates are less than 70% in public schools. This column argues that India needs to start evaluating its existing school su...
- Farzana Afridi
- 06 August, 2012
- Articles
Cognitive Effects of Supplementary School Feeding Programme
This project uses the exogenous policy shock of the extension of provision of school meals to upper primary grades in public schools in Delhi to study the effects of school meal intake on the cognitiv...
- Farzana Afridi Bidisha Barooah Rohini Somanathan
- 01 April, 2012
- IGC Research on India