The progress of school education in India

By Geeta Kingdon. 2007

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This paper provides an overview of school education in India. First, it places India's educational achievements in international perspective, particularly against countries with which it is now increasingly compared, especially China. Second, the paper examines schooling access in terms of enrolment and school attendance rates, and schooling quality in terms of literacy rates, learning achievement levels, school resources, and teacher inputs. Third, the paper investigates the role of private schooling in India, examining the extent of growth of private schooling and surveying evidence on the relative effectiveness and unit costs of private and public schools. Last, the paper discusses some major public education initiatives. The concluding section suggests a future research agenda and appeals for rigorous evaluation of the impacts and costs of the numerous existing educational interventions, in order to learn about their relative cost-effectiveness for evidence-based policy-making.

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The Private Schooling Phenomenon in India: A Review (2020, background): “Kingdon (2007) reported the findings of five studies from different parts of India to show that 4 One caveat with NSS data is that when householders fill this survey, some may not know whether the school their child attends is private aided or unaided, since this distinction is not clear since: all…”
The Role and Impact of Public-Private Partnerships in Education (2009, background): “Also, if poorly handled, contracting can even reduce already low levels of government accountability and control (Kingdon 2007).”
Can choice promote Education for All? Evidence from growth in private primary schooling in India (2009, background): “Kingdon (2007) presents household survey data showing that 30.5% of primary enrolments in rural U.P. are in private schools, and that access to such schools is not equitably distributed throughout the population.”
Does growth in private schooling contribute to Education for All? Evidence from a longitudinal, two cohort study in Andhra Pradesh, India (2013, background): “Recent years have seen significant increases in the extent of the low-fee private sector (De at el, 2002; Kingdon, 2007; Srivastava, 2006).”
What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India? (2015, background): “We are not aware of any research on the causal effect of education on women‟s labor force participation in India or on the impact of rapidly increasing schooling supply on women‟s educational attainment, other than evaluations of recent policies and programs for primary education (e.g. Chin, 2005; K”
Private Schooling in India: A New Educational Landscape (2008, background): “However these studies do not fully control for the socioeconomic differences in children in government and private schools.”
Low cost private schooling in India: Is it pro poor and equitable? (2011, background): “Recognition of all schools is legally required, and enables students to receive government stipends and to allow schools to issue transfer certificates (Kingdon, 2007).”
Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India between 1999 and 2006: Where and How? (2015, methodology): “The enrolment rate and attendance rate in the late 1990s and early 2000 had improved following the first and second rounds of the NFHS datasets (not the third round used in this paper) and the NSS datasets, respectively (see Kingdon 2007 and Sankar 2007).”
Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes Over Time and Across States (2012, background): “Several definitions of inequality of opportunity use the concepts that Roemer (1998) terms as circumstances, efforts, and advantages. 10 The PC index relates to a literalist definition of Roemer (1998), whereby equality of opportunity is achieved when the conditional distributions of outcomes/advant”