31 May, 2019It runs in the family: Parents’ education and child learning outcomes
Early life learning is known to influence later life outcomes like schooling, employment, and income. It is thus vital to identify strategies to enhance child learning in schools. This article examine...
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Naveen Sunder 
20 May, 2019
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Labelled loans and sanitation investments
Rural Indian households report lack of affordability as the main reason for not having a toilet. This article investigates – through an experiment in rural Maharashtra – whether microcredit labell...
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Britta Augsburg Bet Caeyers Sara Giunti Bansi Malde Susanna Smets
- 15 May, 2019
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The long-term consequences of medical missions in colonial India
Health outcomes vary substantially across India. Is this variation exclusively determined by present-day factors, or can it be traced back to historical events? This article studies the long-term cons...
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Rossella Calvi Federico Mantovanelli
- 27 February, 2019
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New Education Policy: Incorporating a 'Right to Learn' Act
In this article, Geeta Kingdon, Professor of Education Economics and International Development, University College London, discusses some of the provisions of the Right to Education Act, 2009 that are...
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Geeta Gandhi Kingdon
- 04 December, 2015
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Five priorities for the New Education Policy
In this article, Ashish Dhawan, Founder and Chairman of Central Square Foundation, lays out five broad priorities for the New Education Policy – ensuring robust data on children’s learning, stren...
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Ashish Dhawan
- 27 November, 2015
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Teaching at the right level: Solutions for low learning levels in India
At least half of all children in India have not acquired basic literacy and arithmetic skills by the end of primary school. In this article, Rukmini Banerji of Pratham and J-PAL Director Esther Duflo...
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Rukmini Banerji Esther Duflo
- 26 November, 2015
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New Education Policy: Putting money where learning is
More public expenditure on elementary education in India in recent years has not translated into better learning outcomes of schoolchildren. In this article, Anit Mukherjee from the Center for Global...
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Anit Mukherjee
- 25 November, 2015
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Of Picasso and Cezanne: Early achievers vs. late bloomers
Children learn at different paces – some are early achievers while others bloom late. In this article, Desai and Vanneman, Professors of Sociology at University of Maryland, present evidence to sho...
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Sonalde Desai Reeve Vanneman
- 24 November, 2015
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Getting reading right, right now
In this article, Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School, contends that children of 2015 in India are not getting the education they need to b...
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Lant Pritchett
- 24 November, 2015
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Building an outcome-focused approach to elementary education financing in India
Government expenditure on elementary education in India is designed to promote a system that is accountable for schooling rather than learning. In this article, Yamini Aiyar, Director of the Accounta...
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Yamini Aiyar
- 23 November, 2015
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Assessments in school education: The current debate
There is an active ongoing debate in the country on the move to scrap the No-Detention Policy and the efficacy of Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation, which were introduced under the Right to Educatio...
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Azim Premji Foundation
- 23 November, 2015
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Holding the teacher education enterprise accountable for its performance
Research on the performance of trained and untrained teachers fails to find that students of trained teachers always perform better. In this article, Amita Chudgar, Associate Professor of Education P...
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Amita Chudgar
- 20 November, 2015
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Enabling inclusive education
In this column Renu Singh, Country Director of Young Lives India, contends that multiple and overlapping barriers of poverty, gender, religion, caste and disability have to be overcome to ensure educ...
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Renu Singh
- 20 November, 2015
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Ten steps to transform the quality of education in India
In this article, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Managing Director of Educational Initiatives, suggests 10 initiatives that can help transform the quality of education in India.
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Sridhar Rajagopalan
- 19 November, 2015
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Ensuring learning at the elementary stage: Are children school-ready?
In this article, Venita Kaul and Aparajita Bhargarh Chaudhary from the Centre for Early Childhood Education and Development, Ambedkar University, present evidence from their research to emphasise the...
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Aparajita Bhargarh Chaudhary Venita Kaul
- 19 November, 2015
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A quiet revolution: The case of primary education in Uttar Pradesh
The challenge in India’s school education system today is how to translate years of schooling into learning. While there is reason to lament the learning crisis, a quiet movement is taking place in ...
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Ten steps to transform the quality of education in India
In this article, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Managing Director of Educational Initiatives, suggests 10 initiatives that can help transform the quality of education in India.
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