Tag Search: “schooling”
Can greater access to education be inequitable?
Right to Education Act, 2009, was designed to provide the right to free, quality school education to all 6-14 year olds in India. This article examines the influence of RTE on the expansion of private...
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Chirantan Chatterjee
Eric Hanushek
Shreekanth Mahendiran
10 August, 2020
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Disparity in access to quality education and the digital divide
On account of the Covid-19 pandemic, most educational institutions in India have adopted online teaching as a solution to offset huge deficits in instruction hours. However, citizens who do not have d...
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Sabir Ahamed
Md. Zakaria Siddiqui
09 July, 2020
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Can India improve its public schools? Research says yes
An important policy question is whether the quality of public schools can be improved enough to effectively increase student outcomes. This article examines the effects of a natural experiment to crea...
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Naveen Kumar
26 June, 2020
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Science in high school? College and job outcomes
Career paths associated with the study of science vis-à-vis other disciplines in high school, are considered more prestigious and renumerative in India. This article examines the association between s...
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Tarun Jain
Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay
Nishith Prakash
Raghav Rakesh
24 June, 2020
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IGC Panel Discussion on gender and education: From policy to practice
The International Growth Centre, in collaboration with the Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI), the Gender Resource Centre (GRC), the Women Development Corporation of the Government of Bihar, ...
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Kumar Das
Manish Kumar Prasad
19 June, 2020
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Human development in India’s Economic Survey 2019-20
Measuring changes in human development can help us understand how the economy, and well-being of a country, is changing. The chapter on human development in this year’s Economic Survey emphasises the ...
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Diane Coffey
Dean Spears
21 February, 2020
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The early advantage: Learning levels in grade 1
According to ASER 2019, children in grade 1 of government schools in India lag behind private school children in both language and numeracy skills. In this post, Wilima Wadhwa explains that children i...
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Wilima Wadhwa
24 January, 2020
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Learning environment as third teacher? Evidence on the impact of school infrastructure
One of the ways to ensure education quality in schools is to create education facilities that are child-centred and provide a safe, inclusive, and effective learning environment for all. In this post,...
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Diego Ambasz
Tigran Shmis
Maria Ustinova
Kumar Vivek
06 December, 2019
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The precocious period: Impact of early menarche on schooling in India
In socio-cultural contexts onset of menstruation (menarche) adversely affects educational attainments of girls. This article shows that onset of menses before age 12 causes a 13% decrease in school en...
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Madhulika Khanna
04 December, 2019
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Banerjee and Duflo’s journey with Pratham
This year’s economics Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have worked closely with education NGO Pratham in India for more than 20 years. Over time, this unique partnership of research a...
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Rukmini Banerji
13 November, 2019
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Draft National Education Policy: Vision for out-of-school children
The draft National Education Policy released in May 2019 took a step forward by recommending an extension of the scope of the right to education act by including pre-primary and secondary education wi...
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Seema Rajput
11 November, 2019
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Understanding school choices under RTE’s 25% mandate
Section 12(1)(c) of the Right To Education Act mandates non-minority status private schools to reserve at least 25% seats for the disadvantaged and weaker sections of the society. This article analyse...
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Ambrish Dongre
Ankur Sarin
Karan Singhal
16 September, 2019
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