Education

Exploring market-based approaches to education reform in India — from school choice and voucher systems to the unintended consequences of the Right to Education Act.

Syllabus

Books

  1. The Beautiful Tree — Dharampal

  2. The Beautiful Tree: A personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves — James Tooley

Academic Papers

  1. Annual Status of Education Reports — ASER Centre

  2. Teacher Compensation: Can Decentralisation to Local Bodies Take India from the Perfect Storm Through Troubled Waters to Clear Sailing? — Lant Pritchett and Rinku Murgai

  3. Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot — Michael Kremer, Nazmul Chaudhury, F. Halsey Rogers, Karthik Muralidharan, Jeffrey Hammer

  4. Teacher Unions in India: Diverse and Powerful — Tara Béteille, Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, and Mohammad Muzammil

  5. A Political Economy of Education in India: The Case of Uttar Pradesh — Geeta Kingdon and Mohd. Muzammil

  6. Why Private Education is Good for the Poor — James Tooley and Pauline Dixon (Cato Institute)

  7. The Risks to Education Systems from Design Mismatch and Global Isomorphism — Lant Pritchett

  8. Where Has All the Education Gone? — Lant Pritchett

  9. The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review — Geeta Gandhi Kingdon

Reports

  1. Anatomy of K-12 Governance in India — Centre for Civil Society

  2. Governance Challenges in K-12 Education in India — Bhuvana Anand and Tarini Sudhakar

  3. Ease of Operating Private Schools in India — Prashant Narang and Tarini Sudhakar

  4. Ease of Operations for Budget Private Schools in India — UNESCO / Centre for Civil Society

  5. Reimbursements under RTE Section 12(2): Too Little, Too Late — Centre for Civil Society

  6. Direct Benefit Transfer in Education: A Policy Blueprint — Ritika Shah and Celia Xinuo Chen

Articles & Blog Posts

  1. There Is No Role for Government in Owning and Running Schools — Sanjeev Sabhlok

  2. Busting Myths and the Double-Speak on Education — Gurcharan Das

  3. One and a Half Cheers: National Education Policy Promises Much, but Fails to Come to Grips with India's Education Crisis — Gurcharan Das

  4. Private Schools in India: Over-Regulated and Under-Appreciated — Prashant Narang

  5. Schooling Is Not a Public Good — Corey DeAngelis

  6. The Difference Between Positive and Negative Rights — Trevor Burrus

Podcasts & Videos

  1. Concentrated Benefits and Dispersed Costs — Center for Study of Public Choice

  2. Friedman's Law of Spending

  3. The Profit Motive in Education — Parth J Shah in conversation with Amit Varma

  4. A Deep Dive into Education — Ajay Shah and Amit Varma

  5. What Does It Take to Open a Private School in Delhi — Centre for Civil Society

  6. Schools in India: Public vs Private — India Development Review (IDR)

  7. One Million Teacher Vacancies That Should Never Be Filled (Part 1 and Part 2) — Centre for Civil Society

  8. Education Financing: Filling a Sieve with Water — Centre for Civil Society