The progress of school education in India

Kingdon, Geeta

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“…For example, students from poorer backgrounds in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, and Columbia are approximately 5-20 times less likely to attend and finish high school than their nonpoor counterparts (Torche, 2010). Similar disparities in access to high school also exist between students from the poorest and richest quantiles in India (Kingdon, 2007). In China, up to 25% of students from poor, rural areas drop out even before completing junior high, compared to fewer than 3% of junior high students from richer, urban areas (Mo et al, 2013;Yi et al, 2012).…”

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Giving kids a head start: The impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China

Song

Liu

et al. 2015

Journal of Development Economics

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We estimate the impact of two early commitment of financial aid (ECFA) programs-one at the start and one near the end of junior high school (seventh and ninth grades, respectively)-on the outcomes of poor, rural junior high students in China. Our results demonstrate that neither of the ECFA programs has a substantive effect. We find that the ninth-grade program had at most only a small (and likely negligible) effect on matriculation to high school. The seventh-grade program had no effect on either dropout rates during junior high school or on educational performance as measured by a standardized math test. The seventh-grade program did increase the plans of students to attend high school by 15%. In examining why ECFA was not able to motivate significant behavioral changes for ninth graders, we argue that the competitiveness of the education system successfully screened out poorer performing students and promoted better performing students. Thus by the ninth grade, the remaining students were already committed to going to high school regardless of ECFA support. In regards to the results of the seventh grade program, we show how seventh graders appear to be engaged in wishful thinking (they appear to change plans without reference to whether their plans are realistic).

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Giving kids a head start: The impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China

Song

Liu

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Journal of Development Economics

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“…We construct an index variable by principal component analysis: distance to the nearest telephone booth, police station, 11 public distribution shop and bank (Infrastructure) 17 We have a linear and a square term of distance to secondary schools that are potentially endogenous. Given our two instruments, our model is just identified .…”

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“…We . 17 It may be argued that access to telephone booth is not very relevant with the advent of mobile phones. Our results do not change when we drop this from the index.…”

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Does access to secondary education affect primary schooling? Evidence from India

Mukhopadhyay

Sahoo

2016

Economics of Education Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children in the 6-10 age group. Using a household-level longitudinal survey covering 43 villages in a poor state in India, we find support for the hypothesis that better access to secondary education increases enrolment and attendance among children in the primary school-going age group. A 1 km decrease in the distance to the nearest secondary school increases the proportion of children in a household who are enroled in primary school by 6.5 percentage points. These results do not change significantly even after we account for endogenous placement of secondary schools and measurement error issues. Moreover, we find that the effect is consistent with what theory predicts: the marginal effect is larger for poorer households and boys (who are more likely to enter the labour force). Further, using a nationally representative survey for India (National Sample Survey 2007-08), we also provide some suggestive evidence that this effect may be quite widespread. This result gives support to the assertion that if the costs of post primary schooling are too high, as they would be if secondary schools are far away, parents have lesser interest in their children's education even at the primary stage. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: I2, I20, I21

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“…Over the last decades many developing counties are trying large education reforms aims at rapidly expanding the education and to stand globally. With number of increasing educational NGO initiatives such as Pratham, Azim Premji, MV foundations and others are contributing in a number of dimensions, as well as in terms of their influence, advocacy voice/media profile, research capability and ability to mobilize funds for education both from individual donors in India and abroad and from the corporate sector (Kingdon, 2007). Government of Punjab clearly appreciates the need to ensure an adequate supply of professional teachers because only education is capable to cure all the social evils present in the society.…”

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Impacts of Certain Imposed Factors on Education and Educationists in Punjab, India

Kaur

2018

Adv. J Social Sci.

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Quality achievements, teacher inputs and outputs require a universal level if our country have to compete with the developed nations. Firstly, this paper examines problems while implementing those according to the present conditions in the schools of Punjab and secondly how those problems affect educationists as employs and educationists as common man. Teacher can fulfil the desires of society if he himself is mentally free from hardships in social responsibilities and free from the threat of insecure future. Education is only way to achieve desired goals in life and to make people aware of their prospect and potentials. Due to disparities presented in the rural and urban conditions of schools of Punjab there are some issues presented which affects the education system but are ignored ever. Often ignored factors, policies and structures either by political will or by bureaucracy have many adverse effects on the thousands of educationists and their families throughout life. This paper thus depicts categories of Para teacher schemes including contractual and departmental, Unequal wages but equal desired output by department, same policies for rural and urban staff ignoring regional disparities, prioritization of subjects since Kothari commission (1964)(1965)(1966) without considering demand of today's 21 st century globalised world, poor level of teacher trainings , misinterpretations of compulsory education, Annual confidential reports (ACR's) without feedback to employs, non-teaching works due to lack of support staff in schools which suffers teacher student contact timings and finally partial transfer policies in which some remained in urban areas forever and others remained in faraway places forever until and unless blessed by political will and ignoring goals of justice, liberty and equality and in last some remedies also suggested for the revision consideration. School education forms the foundation of an education system and this can be achieved only by providing the free environment.

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The progress of school education in India

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Giving kids a head start: The impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China

Giving kids a head start: The impact and mechanisms of early commitment of financial aid on poor students in rural China

Does access to secondary education affect primary schooling? Evidence from India

Impacts of Certain Imposed Factors on Education and Educationists in Punjab, India

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