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Education is the basic requirement and the ‘Fundamental Right’ of the citizens of a nation. Elementary Education system … all children under coverage of Elementary Education, which sadly has not been possible yet in India. Policy makers have … responded through various programs – two latest examples of which are the Sarva Shikhsa Mission and the Right to Education Bill …
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slum children is much lower than that of children in Delhi as a whole. Parental perception of education and financing … education are the major constraints. Even if children are attending schools, the majority of them are over-aged. There are both …
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This paper combines a randomized experiment and a structural model to test whether monitoring and financial incentives can reduce teacher absence and increase learning. In 57 schools in India, randomly chosen out of 113, a teacher’s daily attendance was verified through photographs with time...
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In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...
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In the year 1990, Education for All at Jomtien, Thailand marked the inception of EFA, international movement towards … improving education. In 2000, at Dakar EFA forum six internationally agreed education goals were recognized that aimed to meet … improve its education system in the coming years there needs to be a well thought-out education strategy that can be …
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in the world. Even while the country is investing its resources to create “India-the Global Brandâ€, what is its …
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children in India are suffering, deprived of basic resources and needs for an average human existence. Due to their own …
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economics' from principal agent models and contract theory. In particular, many education systems attempt to manage teaching and …. 1977; Boli et al. 1985; Meyer et al. 1997). That is, the field (in the sense of Bourdieu 1993) of global education has …, measured in any way). I conclude with a comparison in India of the national governments recent efforts in basic education which …
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This paper examines the efficacy of class-size reductions as a strategy to improve pupils' learning outcomes in India. It uses a credible identification strategy to address the endogeneity of class-size, by relating the difference in a student's achievement score across subjects to the...
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million teachers in public elementary schools, a view repeated in India's National Education Policy 2020. Using official DISE … efficiencies that can result from an evidence-based approach to education policy making. …
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