Ep. 77: Education in India
Episode description
According to education scholar and activist Amit Chandra, education in India is a fraud committed on the people of this country by the state. He joins Amit Varma in episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen to explain why.
Also check out:
The Profit Motive in Education: Episode 9 of The Seen and the Unseen
(http://www.seenunseen.in/episodes/2017/3/13/episode-9-the-profit-motive-in-education)
The Right to Screw up Education: Episode 19 of The Seen and the Unseen
(https://www.thinkpragati.com/podcast/the-seen-and-the-unseen/1462/right-screw-education/)
Data on School Closures (http://nisaindia.org/data-on-school-closures)
Our Unlucky Children -- Amit Varma (Jan 2008)(http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/our-unlucky-children/)
Annual Status of Education (ASER) Report 2017
(http://www.asercentre.org/Keywords/p/315.html)
The Aggregate Effect of School Choice -- Karthik Muralidharan & Venkatesh Sundararaman (https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/130/3/1011/1931887)
A political economy of education in India: The case of UP -- Geeta Kingdon & Mohd. Muzammil
(http://ceid.educ.cam.ac.uk/publications/OPI_KingdonMuzammil20081.pdf)
Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot
(https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article-abstract/3/2-3/658/2281517?redirectedFrom=fulltext)