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Inside Indian Schools

After seventy years of independence, the tragic reality is that the schools we attend and the quality of education we receive are influenced by our identity; who we are, where we live, how much we earn and our gender.

In Inside Indian Schools: The Enigma of Equity and Quality, Vimala Ramachandran explores the contours of a school system that is facing a crisis of legitimacy. While India aspires to march towards a knowledge driven society and economy, millions of young people are left behind. Those who can afford march out of government schools only to realize that the private schools (barring the elite schools) are no better. The schools they attend leaves them with little knowledge or skill, a very low self-esteem and a bleak future.

The inequalities in the larger society are reflected in the school system, and the elite schools to which the majority of the children have no access, stand apart from the rest. The book argues that the struggle for equality in education, in all schools, is ultimately a struggle for quality, both being two sides of the same coin.

Vimala Ramachandran is an educationist who lives in Delhi. She was involved in the conceptualization of Mahila Samakhya (Education for Womens Equality) and established the Educational Resource Unit (now known as ERU Consultants Private Limited) in 1998. Vimala Ramachandran has published widely. Her books include, with Rashmi Sharma, The Elementary Education System in India: Exploring Institutional Structures, Processes and Dynamics. New Delhi: Routledge. 2009; Hierarchies of Access: Gender and Equity in Primary Education (ed.). New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2004.

Inside Indian Schools

The Enigma of Equity and Quality

Vimala Ramachandran

First published 2018

by Routledge

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2018 Social Science Press

The right of Vimala Ramachandran to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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ISBN: 978-1-138-59083-0 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-4294-9080-4 (ebk)

Typeset in Plantin Std

by Manmohan Kumar, Delhi 110035

This book is dedicated to

Anita Kaul (19542016), a dear friend and co-traveller in my education journey. An administrator from the Karnataka cadre of the IAS, she was a steady and silent force behind the Total Literacy Campaign of 1989, the Nali Kali (Activity Based Learning Programme in Primary Schools) of Karnataka in 1996, the National Curriculum Framework of NCERT 2005, and the Right to Education Act of 2009. Her love for children and her faith in teachers was legendry she believed when you are in doubt, when you are apprehensive about initiating change, go to the schools and spend time with teachers and children then all your doubts will melt away Her discussions and debates and frank criticism enriched my understanding.

Contents

ANM	Auxiliary Nurse Midwife
APPEP	Andhra Pradesh Primary Education Programme
AS	Alternative School(s)
ASAR	Age Specific Attendance Ratio
ASER	Annual Status of Education Report
BC	Backward Caste
BPL	Below Poverty Level
BRC	Block Resource Centre
BSS	Balika Shikshan Shivir
CBSE	Central Board of Secondary Education
CCE	Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation
CRC	cluster resource centre
CSSM	Child Survival and Safe Motherhood
CWSN	children with special needs
DFID	British Department for International Development
DI	District Inspector
DIETs	District Institutes of Education and Training
DISE	District Information System for Education
DM	District Magistrate
DPEP	District Primary Education Programme
DPSC	District Primary School Council
DSE	Directorate of School Education
EBB	Educational Backward Blocks
EGS	Education Guarantee Scheme
EVS	Environmental Studies
FC	Forward caste
FGD	focus group discussion
FP	Family Planning
GER	Gross Enrolment Ratio
GOI	Government of India
GPI	Gender Parity Index
GPS	Government Primary School(s)
ICDS	Integrated Child Development Services
ICSE	Indian Certificate of Secondary Education
IEC	Information, Education and Communication
IED	Integrated Education
IFA	Iron/Folic Acid
IUD	Intrauterine Device
IIM	Indian Institute of Management
ITI	Industrial Training Institute
JRM	Joint Review Mission
KGBV	Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidhyalaya
KSSP	Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad
LSA	Lok Sampark Abhiyan
MCH	Maternal and Child Health
MDM	midday meal
MHRD	Ministry of Human Resource Development
MoTA	Ministry of Tribal Affairs
MPCE	Monthly Per Capita Expenditure
MS	Mahila Samakhya
MSK	Mahila Shikshan Kendra
MTA	Mother-Teacher Association
NAR	Net Attendance Ratio
NCF	National Curriculum Framework
NER	Net Enrolment Ratio
NFHS	National Family Health Survey
NIEPA	National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration
NPE	National Policy on Education
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