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		<title>Examinations and global competitiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Yong Zhao at the Michigan State University School of Education has argued against &#8220;standardized tests&#8221; in this video. Standardized tests are sort of like the end of the year examinations that are conducted by the state board or the central board in India which tend to assess all students in the country or state [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=improveindiaeducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7770820&amp;post=103&amp;subd=improveindiaeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why should higher-order skills like creativity, critical-thinking, problem-solving and collaboration be mandatorily taught in schools?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1750, there were one billion people living on the planet. It took just one hundred and eighty years for the population to double – in 1930, there were two billion people. In 1970 – three billion. We doubled from that number in 1999 – we were sharing the planet with six billion people. Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=improveindiaeducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7770820&amp;post=90&amp;subd=improveindiaeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rise of private schools in India &#8211; but is this the solution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The growing movement towards private schools for children in India is getting even stronger. But is this the solution for improving the quality of education in schools? A lack of trust in the government-run K-12 schools has prompted many Indian parents including the poor, to look to private schools for their children’s education. Watch this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=improveindiaeducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7770820&amp;post=77&amp;subd=improveindiaeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sandeep Pandey questions the purpose of education in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine forwarded the following article to me where Sandeep Pandey questions the purpose of schooling in India. Sandeep Pandey is a social activist and also the co-founder of Asha for Education and Asha Parivar. Click here to access the article. Mr. Pandey starts off by pointing out the most commonly given reasons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=improveindiaeducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7770820&amp;post=50&amp;subd=improveindiaeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Props to encourage creative and critical thinking among children</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 20:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have found Tulika Books to be some of the most entertaining and colorful books for children. To my knowledge, there are very few publishers today in India that publish original childrens stories that are set in the Indian context, that relate to everyday lives in India,and are written in a variety of Indian languages. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=improveindiaeducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7770820&amp;post=38&amp;subd=improveindiaeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of nurturing creativity in schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 04:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a link to a talk by Ken Robinson, the creativity expert on how today&#8217;s schools are killing creativity in children. Ken Robinson is a visionary and had a key role to play in advising the British system of education on the significance of nurturing creativity in their classrooms. Here is an excerpt from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=improveindiaeducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7770820&amp;post=35&amp;subd=improveindiaeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Taare Zameen Par&#8221; &#8211; Movie brings out some serious defects in the Indian education system</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 23:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Taare Zameen Par” (meaning Stars on Earth) is an Indian movie which tells the story of a dyslexic boy who grows up to be eight years old without anyone around him recognizing that he is dyslexic. The boy shows above average intelligence in every other area except in the written language. And because the school [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=improveindiaeducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7770820&amp;post=15&amp;subd=improveindiaeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An encounter with a government school classroom in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 23:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I visited India in August 2008, I had an opportunity to visit a government run school in a village at the outskirts of Bangalore and observe a multi-grade (I and II) classroom in action. I had decided to observe the classroom to get a first hand experience on what kind of pedagogies the teachers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=improveindiaeducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7770820&amp;post=11&amp;subd=improveindiaeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The success of an education system should be measured with a wide range of outcomes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 22:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bertrand Russell once said –“Education should have two objects: first to give definite knowledge, reading and writing, language and mathematics and so on; secondly, to create those mental habits which will enable people to acquire knowledge and form sound judgments for themselves” I recently watched the documentary called “Two million minutes”. It was produced by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=improveindiaeducation.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7770820&amp;post=8&amp;subd=improveindiaeducation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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