With the first release of OECD PISA results for India, and with the
release of one more year of Pratham data, there has been an upsurge in
interest in education in India. The following set of materials are a
useful reading kit to get a grip of the field.
Elementary education
- At the crossroads, in Pragati, 16 February 2012.
- Education
in India at the crossroads, 24 January 2012.
- Ila
Patnaik in the Indian Express, 20 January 2012.
- ASER
2011 report by Pratham. Article in the Indian Express on
this
by Rukmini Banerji.
- Accountability
in education by Jeff Hammer, 18 January 2012.
- The
first PISA results for India: The end of the beginning by
Lant Pritchett, 5 January 2012.
- The
Right to Education Act: A critique by Parth Shah, 1 April
2010. Also see Raghuram
Rajan and Abhijit Banerjee 20 February 2010.
- Getting
results on education and health expenditures of government, by
Lant Pritchett and Jeff Hammer, 16 July 2009.
- Ila
Patnaik on the then draft Right to Education Bill, 13 January
2008.
- The
mess in education by me in the Business Standard, 28
February 2006.
- The World Bank's WDR
2004: Making
services work for poor people.
- Rethinking
elementary education by me in the Business Standard,
1 July 1998.
Higher education
- The
THES ranking of the top 400 universities of the world. The only
win for India in this list is IIT Bombay (ranked in the 301-350 range).
- The
six ingredients for a great university, 5 January 2010. And,
read Larry
Summers in the New York Times on the key ingredients of
the university of the future.
- Andre
Beteille on private and public education, 27 August 2008.
- Pratap
Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express, 26 August 2008.
- Don't
play Arjun Singh's game by me in the Business
Standard, 7 June 2006.
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